Use of metaphorically in Sentences. 29 Examples
The examples include metaphorically at the start of sentence, metaphorically at the end of sentence and metaphorically in the middle of sentence
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metaphorically at the start of sentence
- Metaphorically speaking, I hasten to add.
- Metaphorically it implied a sort of admirable energy.
- Metaphorically speaking, you could see straight through him to the other side of the room.
- Metaphorically each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people.
metaphorically at the end of sentence
- She expressed herself metaphorically.
- Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow, and make a long face, or only metaphorically?
- It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
- Back at the theatre, the first night was rife with tension and the audience cold, both literally and metaphorically.
- These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation, and have to be understood metaphorically.
- Lakoff and several others in his field have demonstrated, how-ever, that nearly all conceptual and abstract thought is structured metaphorically.
metaphorically in the middle of sentence
- You're speaking metaphorically, I hope.
- Gregory put the boot in ... metaphorically speaking!
- She was, literally and metaphorically, in perfect shape.
- But now businesses are being urged to keep metaphorically clean, too.
- Hold this bowl for a moment , please; also metaphorically: A crazy idea took hold of him.
- What is terrifying is the risk of humiliation, of metaphorically falling flat on one's face.
- English is a synthetic language whose words may be metaphorically nominalized by adding suffixes.
- It corresponded metaphorically to a view of life that was similarly rationalistic and intelligible.
- This idiom is nowadays used to indicate metaphorically halting an attack or ceasing all activities.
- Not united metaphorically, or even just in partnership, but on the most fundamental physical levels.
- This is accomplished by metaphorically fitting the discourse of astrophysics on to that of psychology.
- The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
- In the supper room Auguste would be running around like a scalded cat, metaphorically if not literally.
- Charles and Clarissa made thankful noises, drank a little champagne, and metaphorically wiped their faces.
- He was just Margaret's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand.
- The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
- But Carrick has now gained an age where young lads metaphorically doff their caps and older spectators offer grudging respect.
- From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.
- The other extreme took "law" completely metaphorically, picking out some standard or norm perceivable in natural phenomena which governs behavior through entirely impersonal means.
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