Sentence examples for began literally from inspiring English sources

He never tires of taking phrases that sound like classic hyperbole ("I am literally disintegrating", "he began, literally, to fade" in Midnight's Children) and making them, well, literal.

Schottenstein began "literally throwing people out of the way, moving forward," he recalled.

The business of staffing a new Iraqi government began literally in front of American tanks today.

The outcome was his "square paintings," which began literally as squares of sun-splashed colors.

The tour I was booked on began literally the second I reached the airport.

The legal battles over the health-care legislation began, literally, moments after Obama signed it into law.

The piece, the company's Joyce Theater debut, begins literally enough.

His story begins literally ab ovo, as Horace put it.

This has happened again and again, beginning literally on Day One of the Trump presidency.

Words have begun literally poisoning people, their ravaging effects sweeping across America like a deadly plague.

Kate McKinnon continued to develop her inspired Hillary Clinton, beginning literally with the knives out.