literal
Example Sentences
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If social media were a literal ecosystem, it would be about as healthy as Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River in the 1960s—when it was so polluted it repeatedly caught fire.
These children lived in the literal shadow of Florentine artistic genius: The building in which the Innocenti was housed is a particularly brilliant example of Romanesque architecture.
Television has long been referred to as the electronic hearth, but the yule log’s ubiquity in the streaming era shifts that notion into oddly literal territory.
From Salon
He is said to control a path to the “Infinite Land,” which turns out to be a literal stairway to heaven.
“It’s lived a literal lifetime. Such a shame to lose it,” said one Reddit user, commenting on a post discussing the planned demolition.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
