literally
Example Sentences
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After going from a size 18 to a size 12, she says her old clothes were "literally falling off".
From BBC
"I literally look like a children's TV presenter."
From BBC
“I’m literally right down the middle,” said Sherwin, an appointed police chief who isn’t registered to vote with a party.
"We had to wait in line for bread, milk, water, some basic things in life. That probably has been my foundation, the fact I came from literally nothing."
From BBC
“It’s just literally hand-to-mouth, what we can get out of the fab and what we can get to customers is how we’re managing it,” said Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
