Definition: 1. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
Use 'metaphor' in a sentence:
1. A classic metaphor is that a donkey starving between two stacks of hay because of the inability to choose.
2. Hui Zi said: "The purpose of drawing an analogy between the thing people have already known and the thing they don't know yet is to make them understood. You want me to speak without using metaphors. How can that be done?"
3. The metaphor extends to all of chemistry.
4. And he did so using a tech metaphor.
5. Even some authors who accepted the climax concept rejected Clements' characterization of it as a superorganism, and it is indeed a misleading metaphor.
6. So I like this tree metaphor here.
7. Metaphor understanding is an important part of discourse understanding.
8. IBM metaphor into more than an afterthought.
9. Which metaphor is the "right" one for you to use?
10. Culture as a root metaphor sees the organization as its culture.
11. We have to ask which metaphor is prior.
12. A Comparative Study on Time Metaphor in Chinese and Russian.
13. A search is on for the right metaphor.
14. Let the metaphor guide your solution.
15. Metaphor is a powerful thing.
16. Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes used to signify marriage.
17. The Metaphor Cognitive Mechanism Research of Users Based on Symbol System of Web Interface.
18. When you use metaphor, do not mix it up.
19. If a metaphor helps, use one.
20. Metaphor matters because it's around us every day, all the time.
21. It was originally a metaphor.
22. So is "Gravity is Love" a good metaphor?
23. This metaphor is very appropriate.
24. The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean "a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The metaphor.
25. The following day the King of Liang met Hui Zi and said to him: "From now on, when you speak, come straight to the point and do not use metaphors and beat about the bush."
26. I can only represent it to you by metaphors.
27. Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did.
28. Creativity and Metaphor Production Performance of Chinese English Learners.
29. The Change of Psychological Metaphor and the Development of Psychology.
30. Discussion on value and creativity of metaphor in English writing.
31. WHEN argument fails, try metaphor.
32. Someone mocked at Hui Zi before the King of Liang. "This Hui Zi likes to use metaphors1 when he speaks. If he is not allowed to use metaphors, he surely won't be able to explain anything at all."
33. Garau considers his invisible sculpture to be a perfect metaphor of our time.
34. On Translation of Business English Metaphor from the Perspective of Translation Concept.
35. I think the metaphor is close but not quite correct.
36. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
37. Mental Space Theory, metaphor, Chinese teaching, Analects.
38. The vocabulary that we have to wrestle with for today's essay is taken from Jakobson's understanding of the relationship between metaphor and metonymy.
39. Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.
40. Since dogs are considered to have many good qualities, the word is included in more than 10 Chinese metaphors.
41. A Comparative Study of Metaphors in English and Chinese Economic News Reporting.
42. An Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor in English News Reports of Economy.
43. In this metaphor, think about the relationship between the mind and the body as similar to the relationship between harmony and a harp.
44. This proposition, which we term the increasing-disadvantage model, is a core element of the popular glass ceiling metaphor.
45. Maybe it's a metaphor for purification, starting new.
46. She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor.
47. The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
48. It's a metaphor.
49. There is something about water that makes it a good metaphor for life.
50. It's a terrible metaphor.
51. This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation.
52. Ripe with in-jokes, self-references, and post-modern metaphor, the movie questions a too-civilized world.
53. Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes.
54. Please define what is metaphor, and give me an example.
55. To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.
56. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
