How to Use metaphor in a Sentence

metaphor

noun
  • Her poems include many imaginative metaphors.
  • Yeah, that's a great, metaphor.
    — Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But isn’t that a metaphor of sorts?
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Smart says that metaphor stayed with her.
    — Windsor Johnston, NPR, 25 May 2026
  • There was so much metaphor in the movie.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2025
  • What did the metaphor of the black crab and the ice mean to you?
    — Sasha Urban, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
  • For some the plane is a metaphor for a city ready for a liftoff.
    — Graham Ambrose, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • So the melting pot was a bad metaphor.
    — Sam Lipsyte, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The metaphor wrote itself at the time.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • That sentence is not a metaphor.
    — Rachel O'Leary Carmona, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Having a heavy pack is a metaphor of need.
    — Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And metaphors have great life and longevity.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • That’s my metaphor for acting too.
    — Tomris Laffly, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The question isn’t which metaphor is right.
    — Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a metaphor in there somewhere.
    — Ian Irving, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That felt like a metaphor for so many things, and not in a good way.
    — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The uniqueness is his metaphors.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • It is meant to be, in some ways, a metaphor for what the world lost.
    — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Feels to me like a pretty good metaphor for dad-ing.
    — Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2026
  • These metaphors aren’t just ours, either.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 June 2026
  • That seems like the perfect metaphor for tech in a lot of ways.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • That’s why the irony is carats, using this metaphor of bling.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In a weird way, this works as a metaphor for the film itself.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Tedros used the metaphor of a race almost – but not quite – won.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe, at the end of the day, the sandwich is a good metaphor.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Maybe not being that deep is what makes the pool so good a metaphor.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
  • This is the last jokey metaphor in a franchise built on jokey metaphors!
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
  • And the city is sort of the metaphor for that and the image for that.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Is the search for a cure for the son a metaphor for healing the city?
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The title Cook isn’t just a metaphor.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025

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