Usage examples of "au sens figuré" in French with translation to English

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Son discours n'avait aucun sens pour moi. His speech made no sense to me.
La maison de mon voisin a figuré dans la dernière édition du Architectural Digest. My neighbor's house was featured in last month's issue of Architectural Digest.
Connaissez-vous le sens de ce mot ? Do you know the meaning of this word?
Tu ne sens pas la maison trembler ? Don't you feel the house shaking?
Danny n'a pas le sens de la beauté. Danny has no sense of beauty.
N'as-tu donc pas le sens de la justice ? Don't you have a sense of justice?
Quelle est le sens de cela ? What's the meaning of that?
Tu sens si bon. You smell so nice.
La pauvreté est, dans un sens, une bénédiction. Poverty is, in a sense, a blessing.
Il a assez de bon sens pour ne pas y aller seul. He knows better than to go there alone.
Un bébé n'a pas de sens moral. A baby has no moral compass.
Même si tes phrases étaient effectivement vides de sens, au moins tu as la chance de savoir faire de belles phrases. Even if your sentences were actually senseless, you at least have the luck to be able to form beautiful sentences.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
Ça n'a aucun sens. That doesn't make sense.
Tu ferais mieux de consulter un dictionnaire quand tu ne connais pas le sens d'un mot. You had better consult a dictionary when you don't know the meaning of a word.
Tu as vraiment un bon sens de l'orientation. You have a really good sense of direction.
Marie manque de sens commun. Mary is in want of common sense.
Le sens de cette pratique fut offusqué par des siècles d'interprétations subjectives des praticiens. The meaning of this practice was obfuscated by centuries of the pratitioners' subjective interpretations.
Ceci devrait-il être compris différemment de son sens littéral ? Should this be understood in something other than the literal sense?
Je jouissais de beaucoup de bon sens lorsque j'étais jeune mais cela semble s'être essoufflé. I had a lot of gumption when I was young but now it seems to have all petered out.
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