The job, he said, is an apt metaphor for the town.

They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement.

We believe that this is the most apt metaphor for electronic media.

It's an apt metaphor for a move into a relative wilderness.

Lauren thought it was an apt metaphor for her entire generation.

In another sense, it is an apt metaphor for the state of the profession at the moment.

But the report found neighborhoods where a stew would be a more apt metaphor.

And that is an apt metaphor for the stock market.

Perhaps volleyball is an apt metaphor for politics, after all.

The more apt metaphor, some suggest, would be a railroad.