FIGURATIVE in a Sentence
Learn FIGURATIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
409 example sentences for FIGURATIVE, such as:
1. Please figure out the total cost.
2. A figure came into my peripheral vision.
3. Bill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
4. He's my son, in the figurative sense of the word.
5. He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
2. A figure came into my peripheral vision.
3. Bill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
4. He's my son, in the figurative sense of the word.
5. He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FIGURATIVE
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figurative
a. not literal, but metaphorical; using figure of speech
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Though the figurative language of David was not very intelligible, the sincere and steady expression of his eye, and the glow of his honest countenance, were not easily mistaken.
2 The expression of his eye contradicted his figurative and boastful language, while every muscle in his wrinkled visage was working with anguish.
3 "They will yet find the Huron a singing-bird," said Duncan, endeavoring to adopt the figurative language of the natives.
4 The men of the Lenape listened to his words with all the respect that superstition could lend, finding a secret charm even in the figurative language with which the young Sagamore imparted his ideas.
5 There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.
6 At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
7 As he stood, he leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet his tall figure and the massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry and vigorous constitution.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
8 At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity.
9 Without a glance or a word to the cowering women, he walked up to the white silent figure which had once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
10 Tales were told in the City of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted the lonely mountain gorges.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
11 Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
12 She never came out of a shop, for example, with the clothes she admired; nor did her figure, seen against the dark roll of trousering in a shop window, please her.
13 She had given up dealing with her figure and thus gained freedom.
14 And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky.
15 And the pilgrims who had continued their march and their chant in the background, now gathered round the figure of Eliza on her soap box as if to form the audience at a play.
Example Sentence: (199 in 14 pages)
1 The only difference between the verbs loan and lend is that loan can't be used in figurative senses.
2 He's my son, in the figurative sense of the word.
3 The system keeps crashing and no one is able to figure out why.
4 A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.
5 The administration coyly refused to put a firm figure on the war's costs.
6 I can't give you anything more than just sort of a ballpark figure.
7 The best for a woman who has nice figure is to turn around and leave.
8 Please figure out the total cost.
9 This figure can be expressed as a percentage of the total.
10 Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.
11 A figure came into my peripheral vision.
12 A strange figure appeared in the doorway, clad in white.
13 He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
14 Bill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
15 Girls always eat like a bird in order to keep a slender figure.