(1) He is a recurring metaphor for the colour and movement of Australians at play.

(2) This would be a good metaphor for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.

(3) Smoking is an epidemic; it is a metaphor for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.

(4) When we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic metaphor

(5) Her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor

(6) The amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering

(7) The torso also includes the heart, a metaphor for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.

(8) Never use a metaphor , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(9) The metaphor of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.

(10) It's almost a metaphor for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.

(11) I like to think of the rats as a metaphor for the city's egalitarianism.

(12) What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy metaphor for contemporary America.

(13) Yet its importance as a metaphor for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.

(14) In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a metaphor for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.

(15) The book's title is, of course, a metaphor for what she as a writer does.

(16) Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor .

(17) From what I've read the film is more of a metaphor for home coming/coming out.

(18) I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a metaphor for being stubbornly set in one's ways.

(19) Throughout the film, the necklace serves as a metaphor for her freedom to live a life of her choosing.

(20) So if my garden is a metaphor for my life now then I'm in big trouble!