Sentence examples for tiny metaphor from inspiring English sources

I was just taking the tiny metaphor apart & didn't expect it to turn into a poem.

The mower poems are tiny metaphors for the poet's own task, as they hew a space for themselves from a complex of arguments about art, nature, work, idleness and social class.

Mentions the new campaign button-tiny flags-an old metaphor with new meanings-and we know the candidate it spoke for.

Could this, I ask, taking the tiniest of sips, be a metaphor for how you approach life?

Like fairy tales or dreams, the tiny tableaus work as psychological metaphors: specifically, a stage everyone is bound to enter when life has lost its warmth and promise, at which point finding a new way becomes desperately urgent.

In metaphor, it signifies anything especially tiny.

The survival struggles of a tiny turtle hatchling may seem a strange metaphor to use in connection with fast-changing technology startups.

In this poignant piece the lively abstract dances performed by Ms. Hayes, Ms. Bueschel, Ms. Haselwood, Mr. Nunley and a tiny cloth puppet created by Basil Twist become metaphors for a spirit that slips away.

It may seem a tiny change, but the hospital gown is a metaphor for the way we can transform the NHS.

Because the spot of light or pop of sound was tiny, the word soon connoted smallness or insignificance as the metaphor was extended.

A great metaphor is an iceberg, which shows only a tiny portion of itself above the water, its massive heft concealed under the surface.