Sentence examples for only a figure from inspiring English sources

Then she said that was only a figure of speech.

It is only a figure, a picture, a way of seeing.

That was only a figure of speech to express his pleasure, for although Red enjoyed his Scotch, he also liked to keep his wits about him.

Yet Pitbull has overcome these afflictions to become not only a figure of global unity – he's on the official World Cup song – but also a sleaze and the self-proclaimed Mr Worldwide, a feat Annan could only dream of.

Diagram A (participatory diagramming) was based on a blank sheet with only a figure representing a physician in the middle.

This was expected given that Diagram A (participatory diagramming) involved a blank sheet with only a figure of a physician included.

Nine participants in a control group trained for two days, 600 trials per session, with task A only (A-only; Figure 2C).

As a control, nine participants trained for two days with task A only (A-only group; Figure 2C).

Byron, however, exists in this novel only as a figure in memory -- constantly evoked, lovingly remembered, but absent from the narrative present.

To say that this movie gets under your skin is only barely a figure of speech.

Seven in 10 households that have DVRs have only one, a figure that has been unchanged for the last year.