literal

Example Sentences

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“Are they really the best people to determine what is excessive use of force, given the literal millions of dollars that we’re seeing paid out in settlement because of use of force by LAPD?”

From Los Angeles Times

From the days of Elijah to the promises of Jeremiah, these hills were a literal, geographical place.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pierre Schoeman paints pictures, not in the literal sense but with his words, imagery and unique takes on what it's like being a prop.

From BBC

Throughout it all, the first lady remains relentlessly poised and personally inaccessible, lending new and literal meaning to the term “statuesque.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Yes! The actual, literal sun. His father made him wings out of feathers and wax, and he flew into the sun, and the wings melted and he died.”

From Literature