How to Use literally in a Sentence

literally

adverb

• The story he told was basically true, even if it wasn't literally true.
• He's a sailor who knows his ropes, literally and figuratively.
• Many words can be used both literally and figuratively.
• He took her comments literally.
• The medallion was literally our key to life on the ship.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Known for his love of living things, Garrett literally wouldn’t hurt a fly.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• After all, in this instance, doing so is quite literally a matter of life and death.
  — James Factora, Them, 11 Oct. 2024
• The grandparents weren't afraid to size Ed up — literally.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2022
• The image of people literally laying bricks is a metaphor for how groundbreaking the show was.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• The beauty of the area around the ArtsPark is that there is something for literally every taste.
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• Our official first date was literally about three months into our relationship when everything opened up again.
  — Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2024
• As weird as this sounds, the Rev Air works somewhat like a vacuum cleaner—hence, reverse air—literally sucking your hair straight!
  — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2022
• America's heart is literally breaking, just watching people watch it on television.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2022
• Hodsdon said its starts at the top, with supportive city leaders and administrators, a tremendous group of coaches, and athletes who have literally taken the ball and run with it.
  — Craig Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• By Catholic belief, that is literally true when a priest celebrates Mass. His words transform wine and bread into Jesus’ flesh and blood.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• That includes shifting away from flood irrigation — a practice that literally includes flooding fields — and toward techniques such as drip irrigation, which dole out one drop at a time.
  — Hayley Smithstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2022
• The perfect free day is literally sitting in my house and doing nothing, turning on reality shows and disassociating a little.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024
• This quite literally might be the best Traeger grill sale for the rest of the year.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 11 Oct. 2022
• Here is a guy who literally begs to get punched in the face.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The course is owned by Trump and literally sits in the middle of the city of West Palm Beach.
  — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• And that’s a parcel that is literally one block from the park.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• My team has been working around-the-clock, literally around-the-clock.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
• Jim Field Smith came up with the idea of the show, like literally a one- page pitch almost.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• The bar for the Blue Room Christmas tree is high — literally.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• And his family, this is literally in the first pages of the book, gives up on him.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• But the biggest draws here is the Alpine Spa, literally.
  — Carole Sovocool, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
• The origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West hopes to be, quite literally, movie magic.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 May 2024
• So the phrase sort of came to me literally on a date, which is quite psychotic.
  — Rose Eden, SPIN, 13 Feb. 2024
• The idea that covers the most ground, literally, is a mantle plume.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2023
• There have been literally hundreds of these, and the best ones were compiled on this record.
  — Mia Hughes, SPIN, 30 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024