Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• in the case of its nautical and aeronautical use, it refers to the cramped space
• Any other use of cockpit is in some sense metaphorical of that
• one supposes.
• ... then, that it is not only in poetry that the metaphor is the thing, but that all thought is metaphorical. Of course most of our language is not obviously metaphorical ...
• In this example, followers of Christ are said to be “a new creation.” It is metaphorical, of course, because something already existing cannot be created.
• meaning is metaphorical. Of course, everything that I have said so far suggests that this worry, if it is indeed Davidson's, is groundless. For if he allows that ...

• a metaphorical word, phrase, image etc is intended to represent or emphasize particular aspects of ... Everyone breathed a metaphorical sigh of relief.
• Expand. She sure knows how to separate the metaphorical men from the boys. ... I don't think that you can reasonably read that passage as metaphorical.
• adjective figurative, symbolic, emblematic, allegorical, emblematical, tropical ( Rhetoric) The ship may be heading for the metaphorical rocks unless a buyer can  ...
• Something is metaphorical when you use it to stand for, or symbolize, another thing. For example, a dark sky in a poem might be a metaphorical representation  ...