Sentence examples for metaphor ready from inspiring English sources

Although she considers her children too young for a talk about embryos and uteruses, Ms. Lunden already has a metaphor ready for when the time comes: cupcakes.

I like it when companies give me the metaphors ready-made.

But not everybody in the world of computers and science agrees with Dr. Lloyd that the computation metaphor is ready for prime time.

J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter 's fondness for speedboats has become legendary a ready metaphor for the swiftness with which his Celera Genomics sequenced the human genome.

Religion also provides ready metaphors.

It's time for believers in the old-fashioned creator God of the Bible to go on the offensive, he argues, and he has some sports metaphors at the ready.

Christian Grey, whose big chopper really is just a helicopter, Mickey Rourke's arbitrageur in 9 ½ Weeks, Richard Gere's corporate raider in Pretty Woman, Patrick Bateman… Does that make their womenfolk metaphors for America, ready to bend themselves into any position to seek Wall Street's perfidious and fleeting favour?

My body serves up for him a set of ready metaphors.

Advancing this national prejudice even further, debris flows, mudslides, and related phenomena have "provided literary minds with a ready-made metaphor of the alleged moral decay of Los Angeles".

The charismatic, predatory stranger who through sexual manipulation and bullying takes over a household in which he's either a guest or a servant is a ready-made metaphor for class struggle that the movies have plied for decades.

But Nabokov, in exile, had a ready-made metaphor for impossible dreams: as the eponymous hero of "Mister Morn" explains, "I'll quietly live out the rest of my strange life / to the secret tune of my royal memories".