How to use metaphor in a sentence

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More sentences with metaphor

• The "invisible hand" is an oft-used metaphor for the free market.From the entry oft-used
• As an alternative, I suggest that source code abstractions are virtualisations of metaphors.2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge…. From the entry nub
• Some of these abstractions are so familiar that we have forgotten they are metaphors.2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge…. From the entry nub
• Clarkson sees those airballs as a metaphor for Bryant’s clunky start against the Jazz two decades later.2021 April 13, Bill Oram, “Remembering Kobe Bryant’s final game: Five years later, five untold stories about the Lakers legend’s 60-point…. From the entry airball
• New metaphors are created, a new language, which seems to us Babylonically confused and incomprehensible.2020, Anne-Marie Schlösser, editor, A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Babylonically
• Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016. From the entry pop
• A jumblesome profusion of cuttings and grafts offers a more promising metaphor than does bonsai.2016, Dennis P. Affholter, Letter to the Editor. From the entry jumblesome
• Metaphors can, as well as transfer from prior knowledge, be either helpful or hindersome.2015, Pierre Falzon, Cognitive Ergonomics. From the entry hindersome
• She was able to weave emotional intensity, multiple entendres, and metaphors together to form elegant poetry.2010, The British Tradition (Prentice Hall Literature), Michigan teacher’s edition, volume 2, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 804. From the entry entendre
• Mrs Watanabe, the market’s metaphor for Japan’s housewife yen speculators, has come back to life.2009 June 27, “The return of 'Mrs Watanabe'”, in Asia Times, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2009. From the entry Mrs. Watanabe
• Metaphor is regarded as the most important and wide spread figure of speech in poetry and proverbs.2009 April, C. Arinola Akinmade, “Figures of Association and Sound in some Nigerian Proverbs: Examples from Ondo Culture”, in African…. From the entry paramiographer
• My personal metaphor for the poet has long been that of filter, or cultural recombinator.2009, Rob McLennan, Side/Lines, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry recombinator
• It didn't take long to realize that I'd blundered onto a metaphor for building my book.2008, Robert L. Root, The Nonfictionist's Guide, page 89. From the entry myriorama
• We can combine all five metaphors into a single integrated supermetaphor.2003, Max Velmans, The Science of Consciousness, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry supermetaphor
• Motive is a metaphor with its meaning sheathed like a dagger.2003, Martha Tuck Rozett, Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction, page 9. From the entry mismaneuver
• You can use a metaphor as a loose form of doneness testing.2002, Ellen Gottesdiener, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs. From the entry doneness
• Labbo used the metaphor of "screenland" to describe the context of the children's actions with the computer.2000, Maureen Patricia Carroll, Whitecaps on the Keyboard, page 20. From the entry screenland
• Everyday language itself is riddled with metaphors, albeit often rather faded or worn ones.1996, Michael Toolan, “Introduction”, in Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (Post-Contemporary Interventions)…. From the entry metaphoricality
• And once you enter the land of metaphor, you are on a very slippery slope toward Epsteinism.1995, Michael E. Kinsley, Big babies, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207. From the entry Epsteinism
• AIDS is a sort of metaphor under which everything that's wrong with our society gets highlighted.1988 December 4, Judy Harris, Larry Kessler, “Going Public”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 16. From the entry addictophobia
• Everyone is picking up on the most minute incidents as if they are metaphors for life itself.1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 21. From the entry mysto
• Behind the initials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's ploughshare.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry dt
• The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1. From the entry misleading
• To extend the metaphor just a bit further: In September, South Korea’s art world is as diverse and bountiful as bibimbap.2025 August 29, Andrew Russeth, “Art Blooms Across South Korea in September, Despite an Uneasy Market”, in The New York Times (Art &…. From the entry Jeonbuk
• Could these demons be some kind of metaphor?2024 June 20, James Harvey, “The Exorcism review: Russell Crowe gets back in the cassock”, in Film Stories, archived from the original on…. From the entry Vietnam flashback
• And so, to belabour the school metaphor, diehard fans of both those fallen leaders resent this pair for snitching in class.2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times. From the entry belabour
• Mashed alongside these faux-mateyisms, were classically clumsy Starmerian metaphors.2023 July 6, Madeline Grant, “Keir Starmer’s speech is interrupted by protesters - hurrah for some excitement!”, in The Telegraph. From the entry Starmerian
• Given her “alpha-dogging” of Trump and her jokes about his furry sporran, who knows whether this is more than a metaphor?2018 October 22, Peter Conrad, “Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels review – duck, Donald…”, in The Guardian. From the entry alpha-dog
• There, spinners are considered emblematic of everything that’s wrong with society, and they’re used as a metaphor for anything unlikeable.2017, Jay Hathaway (25 May 2017), Are fidget spinners white supremacist now?, Daily Dot (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original…. From the entry edgy
• People who identified with Miserandino’s metaphor began to self-identify as “spoonies,” seeking support and connection with other sufferers online.2017 July 31, Cassie Werber, “Spoons have become a powerful symbol of people’s invisible pain”, in Quartz. From the entry spoonie
• "To torture another metaphor, it would be the difference between slowly letting the air out of a balloon, and popping it.2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016. From the entry pop
• Metaphors that are relevant and valid for the task to be performed as well as familiar to the user are helpful.2015, Pierre Falzon, Cognitive Ergonomics. From the entry hindersome
• These applications stress interaction and develop Bakhtin's original metaphor of differing points of view preseneted in a conversation.2014, Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory, →ISBN. From the entry multilogism
• Midnight Angel used a similar metaphor, “a place Joeheads could gather and talk about anything, even beyond collecting, including politics.”2014, Dona J. Hickey, Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities. From the entry Joehead
• Benny uses metaphors to describe his and Ms.2012 December 5, Billy Johnson, Jr., “Benny Cassette Struggles To Get Over An Ex On ‘Empires’”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske…. From the entry Ms. Wrong
• Typically, dead metaphors have been considered a characteristic of ordinary language, and live metaphors a crucial trait of poetic language.2009, Cornelia Müller, Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry dead metaphor
• Its virtualness turned out to be a nice metaphor.2009 September 24, Michael Kimmelman, “Searching for Chopin, Finding Poland’s Past”, in New York Times. From the entry virtualness

Meaning of metaphor

1. noun The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.
2. noun A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
3. noun The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.

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Questions about metaphor in a sentence

How do you use metaphor in a sentence?

Metaphor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The "invisible hand" is an oft-used metaphor for the free market.”

What is a short sentence with metaphor?

“desktop metaphor, wastebasket metaphor”

What does metaphor mean?

Metaphor means the use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.