Example Sentences

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“His prose is poetic, sensuous, imaginative, adorned with fanciful figures of speech and surprising twists of language.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2022

He knows people see his gigantic mustache, hear his cornpone accent and predilection for bombarding everyone with folksy figures of speech, and underestimate him.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021

It inserts itself in conversations with our friends and teaches us its figures of speech, its sense of humor, until we talk like it and find ourselves repeating its jokes even when it isn’t around.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2020

Their own figures of speech are the slightly bent keys to their unlocking.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

But usually when two figures of speech appear together, they aren’t so compatible.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner