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How to use figure of speech in a sentence

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The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
No, it's not a figure of speech, they quite literally make theatre out of two bread rolls and an unsliced white.
Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
The use of the yoke is a natural figure of speech on the lips of a carpenter-turned-teacher.
He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word.
The guy was effectively putting his shirt on a horse, and it was the first and only time I have encountered life imitating a figure of speech.
Outside the box is a figure of speech in Canada that means to do something differently from the way you normally would.
If taken as a figure of speech, it could be used to encourage to holy living in connection with prayer.
Sometimes one cannot avoid the impression that Europe is not only a symbol but also a figure of speech.
This is only a figure of speech, but some are so captivated by this form that they maintain that Nature and God are one and the same thing.
They may be like Beth, a middle school student in Boston whose hemophobia was so severe that even a figure of speech like "cut it out" could make her faint.
When a self-communing thinker enunciates a figure of speech within the privacy of the mind, this figuration, unmindful of any outsider, is above all true to the subject's hidden character.
In this context, the endless calls for social dialogue are a rather surreal figure of speech.
Accuracy should not be sacrificed to figure of speech or any other desirable accessory of your speech.
Jesus uses this graphic figure of speech to show that our charitable deed should be for the Father, and not to gain notoriety for the giver.
Sometimes the lifting of hands could be understood as a figure of speech, but in most instances it is a real physical symbolic act.
The principal vein is the mother lode, now a figure of speech as well as the name of one of the most famous deposits of the Californian Gold Rush.
The godforsakenness of the place is something more than a figure of speech.
To use a figure of speech, cappuccino is not always good for us.
Chiasmus is a rhetorical figure of speech denoting reversal or inversion.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Was it more than a figure of speech, an exaggerative personification under great emotion of what most people would call chance?
Without figure of speech, he is another self, and I can think aloud with him.
But, to say he turned his eyes upon the cloister keys, is a mere figure of speech.
Without any figure of speech I feel quite ashamed when I think of you, Bertie.
He is a lay figure, but not necessarily a lay figure of speech.
It explained instantly a something which had always seemed to me only a farfetched Oriental figure of speech.
He follows immediately with a doublet, using a figure of speech, And give ear all ye inhabitants of the land.
Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
You understand, mesdames, that it is simply a figure of speech.
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