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61. The river goes from one extreme to the other and, what with all the metaphor, sometimes gets pretty muddy.

62. It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended.

63. There are more ways than one in which a metaphor can mislead.

64. He sees that Shakespeare discovered how he might use analogy and metaphor as themost acute representation of a mind engaged in thought.

65. But families believe in their myths for reasons more compelling than respect for the versatility of metaphor.

66. She develops a typology according to the different parts of speech, and her analyses reveal a marked preference for the verb metaphor.

67. To use yet another metaphor, moulding of form can be thought of as metalworking; patterning like painting.

68. Deck's theories threaten to make over-explicit what is more subtly revealed through metaphor.

69. In dealing with anorexia nervosa we are dealing with metaphor - sometimes a startlingly apt form of metaphor.

70. Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.

71. On a global level, it also strikes me that the circus metaphor is in danger of becoming an exhausted cliche.

72. At that time the metaphor of the sinking of the Titanic seemed particularly apt.

73. Holly carries a great freight of metaphor in his rucksack.

74. That story is a metaphor for what matters most to me as I help children to write and to live like writers.

75. Mugezi's excremental duties are an apt metaphor for the punishing regime in which he finds himself trapped.

76. As a metaphor, consider the way rocks make their way to the valley floor.

77. The rule of thumb for making good use of a metaphor is to compare what is said with what is meant.

77. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.

78. The recent trend toward cognitive approaches to metaphor provides a means of formalizing such a conception.

79. Both Rossetti and Traherne, through simile and metaphor, make the reader work harder.

80. As fire became, in my thinking, a metaphor for the emotions kindled by race, two additional chapters suggested themselves.

81. As the Joyce example shows, this foregrounding is not limited to the more obvious poetic devices, such as metaphor and alliteration.

82. She was a caged bird, to use her own metaphor, that had to break free.

83. On reflection the chess metaphor is not a felicitous one.

84. The way we are treating the apple serves as a metaphor for how we are treating our world.

85. The opening scene is a metaphor for the team's treacherous journey.

86. It is also a metaphor which puts a high valuation on trust between colleagues as in a family.

87. Compared with poetic devices like metaphor, they are probably rather mundane.

88. I can summarize the preceding by pointing to the fact that there is actually a dual metaphor being employed.

89. That we influence the world around us is not simply a poetic metaphor.

90. The debate of butter-side-up versus butter-side-down becomes a metaphor for many of the conflicts in the classroom.