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How to use metaphoric in a sentence

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As Cross puts it, modern humans can transfer insights from one domain to another, often to a domain that is metaphoric or symbolic.
The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts.
It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong.
The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims.
Walcott's metaphoric take on epic is so powerfully originative as to put the whole genre in a new light.
The principal one, a child of its times, was molecular associationism, a metaphoric extension of the atomism of nineteenth-century physics.
The fashion world is a fecund, fruitful and fertile source of metaphoric phrases.
The final indignity was to lose a home bonus point in the dying minutes as the descending darkness became both literal and metaphoric.
Also, notice that the metaphoric language Benjamin employs in this passage invokes travel and, indeed, traversal.
It's not a lack of editorial courage but, one is fairly certain, long experience with the architects with purple faces and metaphoric horsewhips.
What it does imply is that biotechnology research no longer looks askance to other fields for its metaphoric Inspiration.
The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit.
Each of my paintings is like a book, exposing the tricks of the Evil One, revealing hidden truths through metaphoric symbols, hidden passages and written text.
His metaphoric compositions allude to the form of liturgy, travestying the shapes of altars, gravestones and feretories.
For many in China, Deng's swift rise into prominence has carried metaphoric import.
Being the activities of battle itself, tactics are conceived and executed at the literal and metaphoric centre of war's violence.
An exuberant use of diminutives and metaphoric figures marks the Slavic oral tradition.
Dramturgically the production was based on anatomical and astronomical metaphoric structures.
In this sense, I want the give them a metaphoric mirror in which they can see themselves reflected.
How do we approach commemorative or metaphoric use of heritage and memory in contemporary art or politics?
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Examples from Classical Literature
The metaphoric 'infancy' of which Guarini speaks is the pre-dramatic period of pastoral growth.
Susie Bateman snorted like the metaphoric warhorse, for she scented battle.
With all the wealth of his prolix, poetic, metaphoric tongue, the Polish author gives them abundant consideration.
The rocks are metaphoric quartzites, and the river-bed is crossed by a belt of granite.
After thousands of years the lines of metaphoric advance are still shown, and in many cases actually retained in the meaning.
Analyses and commentary mingle with frequent metaphoric, near-poetic, evocations of musical passages.
I do not deny the importance of metaphoric equations of house and nation.
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