Examples of metaphorically

• I don't know if he's speaking metaphorically or literally.

• The nights are darker here. I don't mean that metaphorically, I'm talking about the quality of the night.

• She tells the story of a woman who is metaphorically buried alive - by marriage, by the past.

• Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns.

• We thus metaphorically refer to this kind of movement as 'agnostic' movement.

• In principle, this applies to all specialist terms, including those which become de-terminologized by being used metaphorically or less precisely in standard usage.

• Metaphorically, there is no transportation of properties across the (sortal) gulf that separates the two domains.

• They appear to believe they are speaking scientifically, not metaphorically, and that their words have some natural meaning that does not require explanation.