Sentence examples for metaphor use from inspiring English sources

Activate a conceptual metaphor; use it to think a metaphorical thought; put that thought into words in the usual routine manner, provided for by the usual routine meanings of the words in question; and the result thereby counts as a verbal metaphor.

Furthermore, as a form of knowledge representation, metaphor use is constrained by boundaries of an epistemic community.

This editorial provides a brief introduction to synthetic biology and responsible innovation, as well as a comprehensive review of literature on the social, cultural and ethical impacts of metaphor use in genomics and synthetic biology.

Additionally, metaphor choice is systematically different in the Chinese and the English versions of the party newspaper, reflecting that metaphor use is sensitive to sociocultural context, especially to the knowledge base within an epistemic community.

Some work has been published since 2009, such as a chapter considering Craig Venter's work in relation to media presentations of metaphor use and ethical discourses of synthetic biology (Balmer and Herremann 2009) and an article on metaphors used in 'artificial life reporting' by Hellsten and Nerlich (2011).

Now "acts of God" is a dead metaphor used by lawyers.

Why has this metaphor, used only in negation, become so vital to the vocabulary of the new administration?

Snowden doesn't like the haystack metaphor, used exhaustively by politicians and intelligence chiefs in defence of mass data collections.

Also, he/she includes a logical metaphor using the preposition "by", and another experiential metaphor, "using".

The metaphor used to describe the BeBP is the Indian Buffet Process (IBP).

Correspondingly, an analogous metaphor uses the fourth term for the second or the second for the fourth.