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Use "allegorically" in a sentence
"This horrible hole whence there was no escape -- where men were thrust to die by inches as all of these had died before him -- the repulsive and blood-sucking insect was in truth a fitting name allegorically for such a place, which swallowed up the lives of men."
"In the Edwyn Collins 'single "A Girl Like You" he uses the word "allegorically" for the first and possibly only time in the history of popular music."
"1 Peter 1:11, that everything, in the Old Testament, is said "allegorically," that is, in reference to the Church cf."