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115 examples of Metaphors in a sentence

I'm trying to invent new metaphors!
I wanted to have humor, beauty, simplicity and complexity and use metaphors to suggest ideas.
And Rumi's stories are metaphors for the spiritual path.
And somebody was talking about metaphors on Monday.
We utter about six metaphors a minute.
So, how do we make and understand metaphors?
And many of the metaphors we use everyday are synesthetic.
They took longer to reject metaphors as false than they did to reject literally false sentences.
Agent metaphors describe price movements as the deliberate action of a living thing, as in, "The NASDAQ climbed higher."
Object metaphors describe price movements as non-living things, as in, "The Dow fell like a brick."
Those exposed to agent metaphors had higher expectations that price trends would continue.
And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.
It's a debate about words, about metaphors.
So I think we have to change metaphors.
But what you have to do to make sense of this and to really understand these principles is, you have to do away with the way in which our conventional metaphors and language steers us towards certain concepts of idea creation.
The climax of the story does not touch you: by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone.
Also, there is very tedious, almost funny, overuse of metaphors in the voice overs.
The dialog bears the stilted traces of the Odets origins: high-flown metaphors that never could have come from the limited imaginations of these workaday people.
The heavy-handed metaphors -- the river, the cat -- were repeated way too often.
The dialogue is steeped in waterfront metaphors ("You can't rush a trout!" ... "Well, don't give up the ship!), and something about the whole enterprise seems strangely pixilated.
There is also other metaphors in this story.
The movie is full of metaphors, but I'll let you figure them out.
I got the metaphors, symbolism, and all that stuff.
There are so many metaphors in the story!
This short film (and the poem which is behind it) is one of the greatest metaphors I've ever seen!
I found it difficult to sit still through all the contrived metaphors, parallels and biblical references, and impossible to accept bathed-in-light Ian Hunter's smug know-it-all as a Christ figure.
The "zombies" here, as little as they are in the film, are largely metaphors for subservience to the state or authority in general, as in wartime.
When I first started watching this movie I was looking for some kind of subtle metaphors but it soon dawned on me that this movie was indeed about people on a train.
It has very overt superficial metaphors about drugs; however, the rest of the movie (and why I think it was personally made) is really not about that at all.
The history of the world, the bible, the cycle of life, and every time I watch it I discover more and more hidden themes and metaphors.
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