Example Sentences

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For white authors and readers, Morrison argued, blackness has been more metaphoric than real, a signifier of certain behavioral expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

As in all sports novels, climbing offers the characters a framework for living, and Mr. Tallent magnifies every aspect of its metaphoric potential.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

And so it's really nice that people like you notice that sense of us as cloud makers, the little metaphoric embeddings of that pattern.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

Of course, I immediately went to the metaphoric.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro