How to Use allegorical in a Sentence

allegorical

adjective

• The dancing bears therefore serve as an allegorical leitmotif in the book’s second half.
  — Timothy Garton Ash, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
• The Babes and the Happy Feets, those are allegorical worlds.
  — WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
• Look at the most famous allegorical artworks of the time on the subject of liberty, and there’s the hat.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• The set-up is deft but broad, which is also the best way to describe this loosely allegorical film.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2023
• For good measure, there were also an allegorical fox and guinea pig and a hot priest.
  — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• In the Roman de la rose, the Lover upbraids the allegorical figure of Reason for using the word coilles (‘balls’).
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 4 May 2020
• Brueghel painted the scenes for the pieces, while Rubens painted the allegorical figures.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2022
• The over-all effect is of allegorical painting, but these are allegories to which Rauch has thrown away the key.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Not to freak anyone out, but these names sound allegorical as hell.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 May 2021
• One of the first woke allegorical uses of sci-fi and still, with the exception of some recent films, probably the best.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2022
• In the more than 2,00 years since, its allegorical powers have only grown stronger.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2020
• Is an allegorical horror flick that builds up to a wild final scene.
  — Hanna Lustig, Teen Vogue, 31 Oct. 2019
• Shame’s role in the first act as an equal point in the allegorical triangle surrounding the Lover might be true to the original poem.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• The room houses a mix of allegorical works and some that feel more visceral, like sculptures.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 6 Dec. 2019
• The movie is a classic coming of-age story, with an allegorical twist.
  — Vanessa Hua, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
• Though Banks is dealing with big-picture, allegorical stuff — Harley Mann’s last name is clue enough of that — the novel isn’t airless.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
• Her art is often described as allegorical, though in most of these images the meanings and symbols get tied up in knots.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• The 1945 allegorical novella has been a target of complaints for decades, according to the ALA.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• His 2017 thriller Mother! was an allegorical tale of the power of mother nature and the wages of incurring her wrath.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 23 Mar. 2018
• For me, this solo turned the tide of the evening, which until then had consisted of a group opener and a gaggle of solos and duets of a more allegorical nature.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2019
• First of all, all stories worth their salt are allegorical in one way or another.
  — WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
• The film focuses on those left most vulnerable by this process, and finds them in the darkness of a space that sets off the story’s allegorical layer.
  — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• The two allegorical figures in Watts’s painting — a winged male angel (Love) who is leading a pale, auburn-haired female (Life) up a rocky path — are unclothed.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• An allegorical tale of a young prince who descends to Earth and encounters a marooned airman.
  — The Week Us, theweek, 28 May 2024
• The effect is to heighten events, to transcend history in favor of a more allegorical realm.
  — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The vulnerable souls in this increasingly allegorical play are up for grabs as the forces of good and evil battle for control over them.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• And Jean-Michel Basquiat adorned his grinning death’s-heads with crowns, amid other allegorical symbols.
  — Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2019
• There was an allegorical zen tale regarding a well and a bucket, which in the Chinese version made a macro point about the condition of humanity in the world.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• This came after the translation of his 1988 bestseller The Alchemist, an allegorical novel about a shepherd boy who journeys to the pyramids in Egypt in search of a fortune.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 31 May 2019
• Or as seen in the work of the sixteenth-century painter Arcimboldo, who is best known for this kind of thing in the Western tradition, painting iconic allegorical portraits out of animals or foods of a certain theme, like the four seasons.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024