literally

Example Sentences

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This is heavy crude that U.S. refineries were literally built to process.

From MarketWatch

“What are you supposed to say when the entire community you were born and raised in is wiped off the map, literally burning to the ground before your eyes?”

From Los Angeles Times

There are some evenings where you, literally, just don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon

Greenland is literally the polar opposite of Venezuela: a lightly populated, democratically governed territory of Denmark, itself a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally that cooperates closely with the U.S. on security.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It was like watching yourself without all of the self-consciousness or the criticism,” he says of seeing Jacobi’s portrayal, “and just truly marveling at a performance by someone that is literally part of your heart.”

From Los Angeles Times