Literally means: Word for word, exactly as stated. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Literally in practice.
Literally meaning
- Word for word, exactly as stated.
- Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
Synonyms of Literally
Literally in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
And secondly, I am so immersed in the Greyhound world that my brain literally won’t let that in. It’s very strange.
Christmas Day arrived and I was round my girlfriend’s house, literally like an excited little boy on Christmas Day.
Anti-Israel activists literally broke up a meeting to discuss antisemitism, which had nothing to do with Israel.
Anyhow, yesterday wasn’t a good omen for the Republic celebrations, when it literally rained on the Mashramani Parade!
Debt is literally the lifeblood of malls, says Chad Littell, who leads U.S. capital markets analytics at CoStar Group.
And like I said we are a epci company so civil construction is literally just a small part of what we do,” Awodiji said.
But though the people of Aladna literally speak in song, they didn't get the chance to give us a rousing musical finale.
And here in Northwest Louisiana we have literally thousands and thousands of acres of public lands available for hunting.
But when the philosophy student decided she wanted a child, she took matters into her own hands - literally.
Atiku thus, literally held the oesophagus of death the grim reaper and deflated the balloon of its hubris.
Come the fourth-wall-breaking conclusion, a detective paperback literally saves a life which serves as an excellent book-end.
After all, this means Raquel’s Saturn return started literally right after the cat flew out of the bag.
And that’s a big strategy question for literally everyone, whether you’re a business, a nonprofit, or even a government agency.
Chad says Alex will be an angel on earth and will literally glow for those who are allowed to see him.
Closing not only the stage, but the festival overall, New York’s ensure the festival is sent off with a bang (almost literally).
Dzifa Gomashie indicated that all of these are suffocating her, literally drowning her in the process.
A passenger told the woman she was making things worse, and she said, “No, I literally need my phone.
Currently, the House is literally not working because it can’t when the lower chamber has no Speaker.
A clearly-annoyed Cleverly replied: “I was literally in the middle of answering when you cut me off.
Ahead of the run, it said: "We have been literally overwhelmed this time with the quality and quantity of the submissions we"ve had.
Common combinations with literally
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is literally 17×
- quite literally 10×
- that literally 8×
- was literally 8×
- and literally 8×
- literally the 7×
- to literally 7×
- are literally 6×
- he literally 6×
- could literally 5×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word literally. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.