FIGURATIVE in a Sentence

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"They will yet find the Huron a singing-bird," said Duncan, endeavoring to adopt the figurative language of the natives.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIGURATIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
2  The expression of his eye contradicted his figurative and boastful language, while every muscle in his wrinkled visage was working with anguish.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
3  "They will yet find the Huron a singing-bird," said Duncan, endeavoring to adopt the figurative language of the natives.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
5  There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
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
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
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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
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
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
11  Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
13  She had given up dealing with her figure and thus gained freedom.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
14  And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
Example Sentence: (199 in 14 pages)
16  He removed the figure from the board.
17  She has been a central figure in the campaign.
18  The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
19  Today's inflation figure is certainly too high.
20  He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.
21  She could see a figure sitting immobile, facing the sea.
22  I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
23  Amidst the current bunch of nonentities, he is a towering figure.
24  On each side of me was a figure in khaki.
25  She skated a perfect figure of eight.
26  He skated a figure of eight in the rink.
27  We eventually arrived at a figure that was mutually acceptable.
28  Everybody of us admired her slender figure.
29  The figure is expressed as a percentage.
30  As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism.