Metaphor
in sentence
394 examples of Metaphor in a sentence
They hooked a
metaphor
into it and said, "I drink Dr. Pepper ..." And pretty soon, we're swilling that stuff by the lake-ful, by the billions of gallons.
The third side helps us go to the balcony, which is a
metaphor
for a place of perspective, where we can keep our eyes on the prize.
All of this language represents a
metaphor.
It's a
metaphor
of economics, of a balance sheet, of accounting, of transactions.
Here's one
metaphor.
It's a common metaphor: "Life is a journey."
I love this metaphor, it's a beautiful one.
But I want you to consider a different
metaphor.
And in a way that's a
metaphor
for life.
It intersects curriculum development, site-specific performance and the politics of joy, while using soccer as a
metaphor
for the urgent question of enfranchisement among immigrant youth.
We spend a week looking at how the midfielder would explain Black Lives Matter, or how the goalkeeper would explain gun control, or how a defender's style is the perfect
metaphor
for the limits of American exceptionalism.
This is
metaphor.
And in that light, you go back and you look at Michael Najjar's photographs, and you realize that they're not metaphor, they're prophecy.
So if I can finish with a
metaphor
for intervention, what we need to think of is something like mountain rescue.
If we think of the mind as the
metaphor
of the music player, we see this.
Was what was happening in Ghana a
metaphor
for what was happening in me?
Scholars have long invoked this
metaphor
of two selves when it comes to questions of temptation.
That's the metaphor, the old
metaphor.
What is the appropriate new
metaphor
for aging?
Now, let me say something about the staircase, which may seem like an odd
metaphor
for seniors, given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs.
I can give you a very sort of rough
metaphor
for this.
So he used the
metaphor
people were very familiar with.
Couple of wavy lines, little boat could be a
metaphor
to represent we're all in this together.
Now it's really hard to think about anything abstract like this without a good concrete
metaphor.
So here's the
metaphor
I'm offering today.
I'm offering the
metaphor
of a staircase in the mind.
And this explains the extraordinary resonance of this simple
metaphor
conjured up nearly 400 years ago.
So the Virtual Earth initiative, and other types of these initiatives, are all about extending our current search
metaphor.
And it uses this
metaphor
of an interactive night sky.
Every 30 seconds, somewhere on this planet, a child dies of malaria, and Paul Levy this morning, he was talking about the
metaphor
of the 727 crashing into the United States.
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