How to use "figurative" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "figurative" in popular movie and book plots

Together they agree to burn down the house as a figurative way to move forward. - Still (The Walking Dead)
ory is set in the tumultuous Sengoku Era of historical Japan, when military masters circle the figurative throne of Japan's first shogunate. - Sengoku Collection
Durant no longer has a figurative hold on Crane. - Pride, Pomp and Circumstance
They are figurative zombies, so the professor has turned them into literal zombies. - Zombies Calling
Graveyards, both figurative and literal, recur as a motif in the narrative. - The Graveyard Game
It gradually becomes evident that the hotel's ghosts are more than figurative and far from peaceful. - The Shining (miniseries)

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