13 Metaphors for dots

Each dot is a little hole in the skin where a feather sprouts.

These dots are the openings of the gastric glands.

Last of all to disappear, already a mere black dot against the blue, was the water tank beside the station.

In consideration of the fact that Dot had been the moving spirit of the whole scheme such a proceeding would be little short of disastrous.

Of all the little incidents of the day, Dot was the amused and open-eyed spectatress from her chair in the cart; making a charming little portrait as she sat there, looking on.

Each dot on the face of the blackboard is a subscriber's connection.

Red, white, blue, black, and polka dot was that quaint array of masks.

Dot's, however, was an intermediate case.

The small round dots all over the young stem, which become long rifts in the older parts, are breaks in the epidermis, or skin of the stem, through which the inner layers of bark protrude.

The dots on the leaf-scar are the ends of woody bundles (fibro-vascular bundles) which, in autumn, separated from the leaf.

The moving dot was a Mexican, a horseman riding alone.

For Anne had been a woman long before her time, and Dot for all her self-reliance was still but a child.

We had to look a second time before we realized that these dots were not the blooms of the wild red poppies that are so abundant in Belgium, but the red-tipped caps of Belgian soldiers squatting in the cover of the plants.

13 Metaphors for  dots