Sentence examples for the figurative from inspiring English sources

But the figurative ones went over best.

I was more familiar with the figurative Indian tradition.

Knocked out — in the figurative sense, Slauson meant.

The distinction is just as handy in the figurative realm.

The figurative windows, however, are fatally infected by Victorian sentimentality.

Hofmann, clearly moved, blew out the figurative candles.

In the 1960's Mr. Thiebaud turned toward the figurative.

They maintain the figurative distance of Eakins's athletes.

"I realized I'd always been interested in the figurative without knowing it".

Not the figurative circus -- the Isiah Thomas-Stephon Marbury kind -- but an actual circus.

In Diebenkorn's Ocean Park Series the abstract is in constant conversation with the figurative.