literally
Example Sentences
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“I have quite literally spent 15, 17 years of my life building up the work to get us to this position,” he said told The Wall Street Journal.
The well not only predates Christianity as a sacred site, but also symbolically and literally marks the starting point of what would become the city of Glasgow.
From BBC
Long processions of women, many of them bearing a takli or spindle to honour Gandhi's commitment to homespun khadi cloth, take over Bombay's streets, quite literally pushing men to the very margins.
From BBC
There literally isn’t a bad seat in it.
From Los Angeles Times
“If you throw away food, you’re literally throwing away your money.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
