Sentence examples for reasonable metaphor from inspiring English sources

Kusturica had thought it a reasonable metaphor for how idealists and innocents are easy prey for calculating big beasts in times of conflict.

It's a reasonable metaphor for the way information travels around the Internet.

You can't have "noncovalent chainmail", without stretching the armor analogy farther than a reasonable metaphor should go.

It's a reasonable visual metaphor for the crossing-over that we think will never happen.

Lorenz's metaphors, while apparently reasonable, cannot be verified inductively.

There are also some terrible lyrics: a new song called Traffic Light packs in more eye-rolling driving/romance metaphors than is reasonable (something that is about to break/brake, etc).

This is a pleasant time to slow your grocery cart to a reasonable mile per hour, an apt metaphor for this new phase.

"The question in these cases of metaphor is whether a reasonable reader could understand it in a literal sense, and I don't believe they could," he says.