Sentence examples for one metaphor from inspiring English sources

"There's never a need for more than one metaphor".

It supplies at least one metaphor for the compelling, layered, only slowly penetrated city that has been home to her family for generations.

But she wrote reassuringly to Strachey, who had sent her the final section on The End of General Gordon: "It's amazing how from all these complications, you contrive to reel off such a straight and dashing story, and how you weave in every scrap - my God, what scraps - of interest to be had, like (you must pardon one metaphor) a snake insinuating himself through innumerable golden rings..

The Extended Synthesis in One Metaphor: The more evolution occurs, the more evolution is possible.

One metaphor Republicans seem obsessed with these days is "moving the goal posts".

One metaphor that's been bandied about is that Brown is like Gandalf, the wizened wizard from Lord of the Rings.

Ah, the perverse effect of jealousy on one's libido, not to mention on one's metaphors!

He's the Master – with a capital M – of language: there's at least one original metaphor on every page.

It tastes like British cuisine in the years after rationing, ie like nothing (oh come on, allow me one food metaphor).

This article explores the observation that, in scientific efforts to visualise the synthetic cell endeavour, one particular metaphor seems especially striking, namely the mandala metaphor: the tendency to represent synthetic cells with the help of mandala-like images (Zwart 2018).

One solid metaphor and I was on board.