METAPHOR in a Sentence

Learn METAPHOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

19 example sentences for METAPHOR, such as:

1. My metaphor was drawn from fruits.
2. I'm merely speaking metaphorically.
3. I can only represent it to you by metaphors.
4. He uses the metaphor of fire to represent hatred.
5. Her second novel is written in a very metaphorical style.

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 Meanings and Examples of METAPHOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
metaphor
 n.  implied comparison; one thing conceived as representing another; symbol
Classic Sentence:
1  He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  My metaphor was drawn from fruits.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
3  There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
4  Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
5  I'm merely speaking metaphorically.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
6  These hideous and delicate products of wonderful art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
7  A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
8  Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids and as subtle in colour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
10  Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage sense to the metaphorical sense.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
11  Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
Example Sentence:
1  The author uses disease as a metaphor for the corruption in society.
2  The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
3  Their relationship is a metaphor for the failure of communication in the modern world.
4  He uses the metaphor of fire to represent hatred.
5  While maybe the metaphor is a little stretched, Sharon's comparison is mostly brilliant.
6  It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
7  I can only represent it to you by metaphors.
8  Her second novel is written in a very metaphorical style.