How to Use metaphor in a Sentence

metaphor

noun

• Her poems include many imaginative metaphors.
• What did the metaphor of the black crab and the ice mean to you?
  — Sasha Urban, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
• And the city is sort of the metaphor for that and the image for that.
  — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• So finding that metaphor was the key to the whole thing.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• Is the search for a cure for the son a metaphor for healing the city?
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
• For some the plane is a metaphor for a city ready for a liftoff.
  — Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
• But for all the rhetoric of war, the shape of the metaphor remains fuzzy.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• All those moves on the board are a metaphor for the bigger game of life.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2020
• That seems like the perfect metaphor for tech in a lot of ways.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
• Who needs a metaphor in times as hot and blunt as ours?
  — Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
• In a weird way, this works as a metaphor for the film itself.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
• Winthrop used the phrase as a metaphor for the new world settlement.
  — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Sep. 2020
• That felt like a metaphor for so many things, and not in a good way.
  — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
• Nowhere is the chasm clearer than in the metaphors each side chooses.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Bayazid called it a black hole — and a perfect metaphor.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• The first episode whizzing five years into the future is kind of a metaphor.
  — Liz Shannon Miller, The Verge, 2 July 2019
• That seems a fitting metaphor for this team at the moment.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2022
• The scenes serve as a metaphor of Marib's place in Yemen.
  — Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir and Charbel Mallo, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• There was no concept of the user; that was not part of the metaphor at all.
  — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• Grainge wrapped up the meeting with a couple more metaphors.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Tedros used the metaphor of a race almost – but not quite – won.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
• But using the black and white keys on a piano as a metaphor is…um...
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• If the tree is a metaphor for this year, then maybe things are looking brighter.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2020
• But zombies have been metaphors for more than one thing.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2017
• The wood is, among other things, a metaphor for a library.
  — Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
• Usher turns out to be a body metaphor for a person who stands at a door.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2021
• Which brings us back, once again, to that central metaphor of the glass onion.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• The metaphor fits just well enough for Julavits to make her point.
  — Jessica Ferri, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• So that brings me back to your very apt metaphor of a landscape painting!
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
• There is a metaphor in there somewhere, minus the flip-flops.
  — Alise Leslie, The Root, 1 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024