literally

[ˈlɪtərəli]

Definition:
1. In a literal way.
2. Without exaggeration.

Use 'literally' in a sentence:

1. The event literally stopped the traffic.
2. The word 'planet' literally means 'wandering body'.
3. If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
4. To see my body literally wither away before my eyes was exasperating.
5. She literally ran along the path toward the gate.
6. I literally have no idea how to answer that question.
7. I saw that she was, both literally and figuratively, up against a wall.
8. I look back on it as the bloodiest ( though not literally) winter of the war.
9. Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people.
10. The word 'volk' translates literally as 'folk'
11. It took literally three minutes before I filled in a form, and they stamped my passport.
12. Until next payday, I was literally without any money.
13. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
14. Most adverts are just too meagre in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally.
15. The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
16. Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years.
17. When I told you to 'get lost' I didn't expect to be taken literally.
18. I literally crawled to the car.
19. The city was literally destroyed.
20. These days lots of young Japanese do omiai, literally, "meet and look".
21. We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up.
22. These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.
23. When I told you to ‘get lost ’ I didn't expect to be taken literally .
24. With mush practice people learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.
25. I wouldn't want him to take that too literally.
26. His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder.
27. I literally jumped out of my skin.
28. A stanza is, literally, a room.
29. I'm literally at the point where I cannot think.
30. Sometimes you can't take some Chinese idioms literally because they have deeper meanings.
31. The term "fossil" often implies petrifaction, literally a transformation into stone.
32. And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.
33. The type of farming I'm aiming for is literally so that people can survive as it's going to get more and more dry, Farrant says.
34. I bit my tongue ( literally : my tongue was bitten and harmed by my teeth ).
35. Literally, it doesn't seem to see what it does.
36. You're taking his words too literally.
37. So when this was first found, people literally would not believe it.
38. Five days ago I literally forgot to apply to college.
39. Good Health has the answer at hand-literally.
40. The word 'volk' translates literally as 'folk'.
41. Generosity literally means willingness in giving away one's own money，time，talent，etc．
42. She literally had her heart in her mouth when she stole the watch.
43. It literally is like something in a dream.
44. Which of the following words in the first paragraph is used literally?
45. In other words, tulips were literally worth their weight in gold.
46. There are literally hundreds of prizes to win.
47. As a boy I had read literally hundreds of books.
48. Parts of the country are literally on fire.
49. That playing literally stimulates growth, creates connections within the brain?
50. I saw five cop cars pull into the driveway. And I literally freaked.
51. One single act of violence can literally destroy your movement.
52. Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.
53. Literally, the testers and the developers sat on opposite sides on the table.
54. It is figuratively and literally otherworldly in its aims.
55. The children were literally starving.
56. The Boyars' counsel, that is the counsel of the nobles, literally met in the palace.
57. The views are literally breath-taking.
58. Arnie literally ignored me, because he's gay.
59. The word ‘planet ’ literally means ‘wandering body ’.
60. Your job is "literally killing you," as The Washington Post put it.
61. She was literally blue with cold.
62. He learned the small nation is quite literally a family;
63. The doors literally slam shut at night.
64. Because they're literally rooted into the ground, they are unable to leave and go elsewhere.
65. Idioms usually cannot be translated literally into another language.
66. And all these men, literally at least 10 men,
67. He translated the passage literally.
68. It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
69. Windsor Castle is quite literally an antique treasure trove.
70. We have literally altered the chemistry of our planet's atmosphere.