Metaphor in a sentence

Then, this whole metaphor of games, which is like games are a metaphor for life and childhood, and your parents can be there when you're playing them with your friends, even though they maybe they shouldn't be.

I kinda… Didn’t really look at a lot of movies that inspired me as much for the second one, as much as it was a metaphor, really, where Richard (Wenk) wrote about him going home, and we came up with the idea of the storm as a metaphor.

According to Plotinus for example, Plato's metaphor of a craftsman should be seen only as a metaphor, and Plato should be understood as agreeing with Aristotle that the rational order in nature works through a form of causation unlike everyday causation.

In Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf, he argues that the American involvement in the Gulf war was obscured or "spun" by the metaphors which were used by the first Bush administration to justify it.

In the 2000 documentary Joseph Campbell: A Hero's Journey, he explains God in terms of a metaphor: God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being.

Stanovich discusses this metaphor in context of memes and memeplexes and refers to this metaphor as a " Neurathian bootstrap ".

A mere generation ago, “heartbreak” was an overused literary metaphor but not an actual medical event.

And you’re not making a joke about the metaphor.

As Black-owned, Australian boutique brand, Liandra Swim’s Deep Sea Collection draws inspiration from the Mariana Trench and tectonic plates, as a metaphor for the balance of how humanity and society sit, connect, and clash with each other.

As Joost Broeren-Huitenga showed earlier, the layers are also present in the very detailed elaboration of the metaphor that is the film, where everything has a symbolic meaning.

As Mike Ritter says: "During its heyday, Grajagan was a living metaphor for the surfer's dream of uncrowded perfection in a remote location.

But when I found that metaphor within the story, I was like, "Okay, now it works," so I wrote it, and that was it.

By the final verse, the suitcase of songs is ‘tattered and torn and falling apart’, a poignant metaphor for Alan’s mind.

Come to think of it, maybe nuclear weapons don’t need a new metaphor either.

Eskom attempted to illustrate why the voiding practice was problematic by using a metaphor of Frankfort as a household with a grid-tied rooftop solar installation without battery capacity.

Hackneyed metaphor aside, it’s a strange prop to have at an event for whatever reason.

I’d say it’s time to cull the herd, but the political metaphor would be lost to their ignorance and I’d be cancelled for promoting violence.

In a way, its abilities and regality acted as a metaphor for Peter as no matter how much of a scoundrel he could be, he was still a hero that could harness the elements deep down.

In kind, the rhubarb pie is a balance of the vegetal and the candied, the earthly and the sublime, the sweet and the bitter, an edible metaphor for life itself.

In this audio essay, Michelle makes the case that the reality series offers viewers a weird but apt metaphor for America’s denial of the realities of aging and dying in this country.