The vision grew more splendid as it grew more metaphorical.

It's Game of Thrones but in the boardroom, and the beheadings are more metaphorical.

Eskom have found another, more metaphorical way to keep us all in the dark again.

There is a slight tendency to discount the cost: this could be more metaphorical than literal.

For Annie, the slow vanishing is more metaphorical.

Often, it's more metaphorical than real, but not so these days with the Chinese in the South China Sea.

The green light has been given and there's more metaphorical gas in the tank than the gauge tells ya.

Others are more metaphorical.

What he appears to have meant was a more metaphorical opting out, virtual communities of like-minded dissenters tied together through technology.