Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another.
1 What was that metaphoric quagmire about sleeping in tents and buying undies?
2 What would be better than a park full of metaphoric apple trees?
3 I didn't point out the number of metaphoric lines Slidell had just crossed.
4 That is, the branch is an actual and metaphoric Faraday cage.
5 I am investigating the sculptural and metaphoric nature of 'kite-essence'.
6 I do not know how much of this is metaphoric , and how much literal.
7 Frederick's nerves were in a state of tension, not in a mere metaphoric sense.
8 Ted's injuries were both metaphoric and not at all so.
9 If he is forcibly incorporated he dies a metaphoric death.
10 A story of good tidings, sometimes true, sometimes metaphoric .
11 To the metaphoric railway to the cyber physical system.
12 The feral hogs fill a similarly metaphoric role, but for citizen-level debate-bothsides of it.
13 But let us stick to your metaphoric melting pot.
14 The ancients were not being metaphoric when they referred to "illumination."
15 In general, the language appears to me too metaphoric ; especially as used by all the characters.
16 ITALY was yesterday counting the cost, literal and metaphoric , of a spectacular referendum flop on Sunday.
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