Figurative in a sentence

And when the narrator mentioned them he was not employing figurative language, but giving an explicit account of things which had a forward reference that was figurative.

Beginning in the 1980s, there was a swing back toward figurative public sculpture; by 2000, many of the new public pieces in the United States were figurative in design.

By figurative extension from the yoking or harnessing of oxen or horses, the word took on broader meanings such as "employment, use, application, performance" (compare the figurative uses of "to harness" as in "to put something to some use").

Allegedly, some Twins people “threw a party” seeing Donaldson go, though we assume that’s only figurative.

Doig earned his reputation in the 1990s as a figurative painter with a unique voice echoed in his monumental canvases, large-scale, immersive landscapes that hover in both actuality and the realms of the imagination.

For “literally” to work, what you are saying must have a figurative meaning that is actually happening.

He favours landscape and figurative work accenting light and dark.

Her figurative work reflects thoughts on the reason for and role of humanity while her dynamic wave paintings take inspiration from life on the North Coast.

Instead of Marc Spector’s literal Dissociative Identity Disorder, this is a figurative alternate persona: two people acting as halves of a whole.

Jamie Lloyd directs a figurative and literal bare-bones version that has been pruned with careful thought by Amy Herzog.

Many Chinese associate the late Jiang with an era seen as brighter and more hopeful than the literal and figurative lockdown Xi has brought upon China.

The Portland Art Museum says, “After returning from the war, Hagiwara began to develop a figurative style that moved into abstraction by way of a poetic sense of composition and whimsical forms.

Unfortunately for football fans waiting with bated breath, A-Rod has done so in a literal and not figurative fashion.

A figurative line was drawn above James Sicily’s name.

Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa’s main show, which accompanies 88 national pavilions for the seven-month run, is strong on figurative painting, with fewer installations than recent editions.

Communication by text and zoom have so desensitized us and have allowed actual and figurative walls to get erected, and remain, as social barriers.

Critic Jerry Saltz was perhaps the first to articulate a dichotomy in figurative painting between the cool, clean portraiture of Alex Katz and Alice Neel’s clumsily rendered goofballs.

Dorothy, whose work was figurative, carved in the traditional way with mallet and gouges, either in wood or stone, or modelled in clay and cast, sometimes scaling up pieces for outdoor sites.

He also poured figurative water on the material’s waterproof claims: “Read the installation instructions and you will find they mean waterproof from the top down, not the bottom up,” Goldstein pointed out.

His reflections on being – within a little more than a year of each other – at the figurative top and bottom of the planet, lead to fascinating metaphysical contemplations.