metaphorically

How To Use metaphorically In A Sentence

• I can't even remember if the problem to do with the header tank and the problem to do with the ballcock stop valve were connected, physically or metaphorically.
• Metaphorically, the family's lived world, how they experience at this particular cross-section of their lives, can be symbolically described as a kaleidoscopic telescoping of its past and anticipated future. Humanistic Nursing
• I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• We've tried very hard not to put any academic pressure on Mason and it frustrates me deeply that my kindergartener is worried about his chances to get into Harvard, as it were, metaphorically speaking. Day in the Life of an Idiot
• The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
• Metaphorically, this has made it possible for musicians to re-route pilgrimages to Santiago along the Celtic fringe to form postmodern confluences of Celtic religion and music.
• Hybrid vigor is a well-known phenomenon responsible for increased yields in corn, and metaphorically, for the economic and cultural flourishing of civilizations that engage in foreign trade. Wolfram Blog : Hybrid Logos and a Fortunate Mistake
• The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
• The Internet has been described metaphorically as an information superhighway, a marketplace, and a virtual community.
• “All flesh is grass,” is not only metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves. Religio Medici