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.