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How to use the word Metaphorically in a Sentence?

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In 2022, we’ve recorded the highest number of complaints of anti-Muslim prejudices, at 152, over the years, our records have shown that complaints increase around and during Ramadan, in part because Muslims are more visible and take up more space – physically and metaphorically. – Selaedin Maksut	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We mean business, and we are trying to take this thing down metaphorically and literally, we're just getting out there and trying to inspire, but we're also trying to be the people that make a difference. There are a lot of fighters out there. – John Shearer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If dominoes lined up in a formation metaphorically represents how stress works, what are you doing to ensure your last domino never falls? – Sanita Belgrave	added by sanita_b 2 years ago
Gloria Gaynor is going to sing I Will Survive, which is kind of a theme with 2020 both metaphorically and unfortunately, literally. – Tim Tompkins	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Zoya kind of very literally and metaphorically peels away all of those layers to kind of tap into a very real, very authentic side of me ... a little bit more quiet, more reserved, more introverted and more internally feeling sensitive, vulnerable. – Ranveer Singh	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
People come to New York, they come to see the sights, and it's important at this dark time in our country to keep the torch on the Statue of Liberty lit, metaphorically. – Andrew Cuomo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We kind of felt like it was sort of an epic journey for them in that all of it was so metaphorically perfect. This boat went completely against what it was supposed to do … and then all of a sudden it ended up where it was supposed to go. – Leia Lowery	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The owner is drawn to the power and charisma of New York’s skyscrapers, he wanted the bow of the yacht to include a phoenix because, metaphorically, the phoenix rises to soaring heights much as skyscrapers do. – Andrew Winch	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. – Henry Fielding	added by anonymous 13 years ago

In 2022, we’ve recorded the highest number of complaints of anti-Muslim prejudices, at 152, over the years, our records have shown that complaints increase around and during Ramadan, in part because Muslims are more visible and take up more space – physically and metaphorically.

– Selaedin Maksut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We mean business, and we are trying to take this thing down metaphorically and literally, we're just getting out there and trying to inspire, but we're also trying to be the people that make a difference. There are a lot of fighters out there.

– John Shearer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If dominoes lined up in a formation metaphorically represents how stress works, what are you doing to ensure your last domino never falls?

– Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

Gloria Gaynor is going to sing I Will Survive, which is kind of a theme with 2020 both metaphorically and unfortunately, literally.

– Tim Tompkins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Zoya kind of very literally and metaphorically peels away all of those layers to kind of tap into a very real, very authentic side of me ... a little bit more quiet, more reserved, more introverted and more internally feeling sensitive, vulnerable.

– Ranveer Singh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

People come to New York, they come to see the sights, and it's important at this dark time in our country to keep the torch on the Statue of Liberty lit, metaphorically.

– Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We kind of felt like it was sort of an epic journey for them in that all of it was so metaphorically perfect. This boat went completely against what it was supposed to do … and then all of a sudden it ended up where it was supposed to go.

– Leia Lowery

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The owner is drawn to the power and charisma of New York’s skyscrapers, he wanted the bow of the yacht to include a phoenix because, metaphorically, the phoenix rises to soaring heights much as skyscrapers do.

– Andrew Winch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

– Henry Fielding

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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