What is "metaphorically"

Usage examples of "metaphorically".

Throughout the world at all periods of history, human life is metaphorically depicted as a perilous journey.

This is metaphorically depicted in vampire folklore as the inability to cast any reflections in mirrors.

Before examining these etymologies metaphorically, we must address the suspicion that such an approach imposes anachronistic readings upon the material.

The Platonic model is only metaphorically useful because it assumes an ontology that lodges reality firmly in Ideas.

Nationality, he discovers, is literally and metaphorically a matter of costume.

The dangers of attack, counter-attack, mining, spying, and enfilade gave pamphlet battles a metaphorically military appearance.

There were days when the sun was metaphorically shining, and the awful heavy darkness lifted.

We would make love a lot and metaphorically cement ourselves together.

At first I thought they meant this metaphorically, but no: the reference was to the physical enclosure, the walls and windows and ceilings.

I thought that perhaps she was speaking metaphorically, or that gourd was a euphemism.

Don Gately from his Demerol and Talwin addiction at Ennet House, a halfway house that is literally and metaphorically down the hill from E.

The religious traditions are often so rich and multivariate that they offer ample opportunity for renewal and revision, again especially when their sacred books can be interpreted metaphorically and allegorically.

This was the reason she had swallowed her pride and set aside her misgivings about Company, why she had recontracted with SEC alter they had betrayed her, why she had traveled vast distances, literally and metaphorically: to come to Jeep and study over a million people who had been out of contact with humanity for two or three hundred years.

Real Delving, hands metaphorically dirty, became the norm, not the exception.

In comedy clubs, she frequently dealt with hecklers, cracked their thick skulls, wrung their geek necks, stomped their malicious hearts till they cried for mama metaphorically speaking, of course using a dazzle of words as effective as the fists of Muhammad Ali in his prime.