LITERAL in a Sentence
Learn LITERAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
56 example sentences for LITERAL, such as:
1. Thus a literal translation of the.
2. I had forgotten you were so literal.
3. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
4. The event literally stopped the traffic.
5. Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
2. I had forgotten you were so literal.
3. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
4. The event literally stopped the traffic.
5. Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
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Meanings and Examples of LITERAL
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literal
a. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)
a. without interpretation or embellishment
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 I had forgotten you were so literal.
2 It was not, indeed, anything specific that he feared: there had been a literal truth in his declaration that he did not think anything would happen.
3 He was a serious and literal person, and rather humorless.
4 Thus a literal translation of the.
5 Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber.
6 When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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7 "'Tisn't in mine head, it's in mine mouf," answered literal Demi, putting out his tongue, with a chocolate drop on it, thinking she alluded to confectionery, not ideas.
8 Thus, when Emancipation finally came, it seemed to the freedman a literal Coming of the Lord.
9 Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
10 I don't mean, literally, to take the next train.
11 It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
12 I couldn't help thinking that the years when Lena literally hadn't enough clothes to cover herself might have something to do with her untiring interest in dressing the human figure.
13 I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.
14 All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life.
15 The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation.
Example Sentence:
1 The literal meaning of the word " cat " is an animal.
2 His story is incredible in the literal sense of the word.
3 I beg your pardon, it is the literal truth: he asked me more than once, and was as stiff about urging his point as ever you could be.
4 It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.
5 The event literally stopped the traffic.
6 She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
7 Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
8 If you tell a person to "step on it" or "throw on your coat," they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
9 The word literally translates to 'dispeller of darkness,' or 'one who brings light.'
10 The colonel in charge of the rubbish clearing operation, Keith Schollom, told me this was literally a mountain of a problem to be dealing with.
11 There are literally hundreds of varieties of these two species of legume, including beans and peas with many different sizes, colors, shapes.
12 Over one-quarter of the adult population are not fully literate.
13 They are the first fully literate generation in the country.
14 Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
15 This claim is made on the grounds that literate people can be trained less expensively.