In brief, he smiled faintly; and if he had any pleasantry to pass in turn, the approach of the manager, now clothed metaphorically in deferentialism, relegated it to the limbo of things thought but left unsaid.
But he had not wasted his time, though he was more thanmetaphorically threadbare, and his waist would have made a sensation at a staymaker's.
Metaphorically speaking, it rolled over on its back, with its four paws in the air, like a small dog that has got the worst of a fight and throws himself on the bigger dog's mercy.
Cleopatra, metaphorically speaking, was a fleshpot, because the world hankered after her.
Metaphorically she drew herself wearily out of the water and with a renewed sense of confidence felt the warm sun upon her limbs.
York placed what purported to be a Wolsey chair just out of the line of light thrown by a lamp on the table, andmetaphorically hauled himself up for having gone a little too far.
Metaphorically he took off all his hats to her and laid them at her feet.
Ellen's plan is the right one, metaphorically speaking, to adopt in all the difficulties and trials of life: look upwards, and we shall be carried safely through them.
Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hencemetaphorically used to express a thing terminating in nothing.
The few words spoken from her window with her recently determined son-in-law had switched on her current again, metaphorically speaking.
But it grows and grows, and in allegro con fuoco on the voyage home, and only leaves a bar or two blank, when the thing it metaphorically represents is asleep and isn't suffering from the wind.
Among them can seldom be noticed in literal fact-- The graceless action of a heavy hand-- which the Bastard metaphorically condemns in King John.
This sign primarily indicates a squinting person, and metaphorically one whose looks cannot be trusted, even as in a squinting person you cannot be certain in which direction he is looking.
The process metaphorically called bleeding the rich man is performed not only metaphorically but literally every day by surgeons who are quite as honest as most of us.
To this higher life the Master is to devote himself, and to it he is metaphorically initiated in the admission.
This is actually the case, as he has indeed gained the thing whose constitution is metaphorically worked out in the whole story, that is, the philosopher’s stone.
Lights~, a worthless piece of meat; applied metaphorically to a fool, a soft or stupid person.
It is an occasion which is metaphorically inscribed with this legend: "Choose your partners.
The doctor had taken a run home, "making a morning call, as it might be metaphorically observed," he said to Jan.
But the road or way may be used metaphorically for the path of duty or virtue.
On the one hand they furnish water for irrigation, and on the other they cause destruction and loss of life by their floods, metaphorically expressed by the serpent's poison.
Nor can we admit the contention that the term 'ajâ' is meant to teach that Prakriti should metaphorically be viewed as a she-goat; for such a view would be altogether purposeless.
An old word for steered; it is metaphorically used by Shakspeare in Measure for Measure.
The word branch is also metaphorically used for river divergents, but its application to affluents is improper.
A ship is said to be on her beam-ends when she has heeled over so much on one side that her beams approach to a vertical position; hence also a person lying down is metaphorically said to be on his beam-ends.
The Mahdi had conquered the country, and had thus metaphorically married their mother; him, therefore, they had fully accepted as their lord and master.
He was metaphorically about to fight with his back against the wall, although actually there was nothing to protect him from a rear attack.
The Admiral had fully expected that the culprit would metaphorically go down on his knees and beg for pardon, but he had mistaken Dacres' character.
He had things to say on paper that would take him all his time; and Udaipur had metaphoricallyopened her arms to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metaphorically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
