Sentence examples for could not literally from inspiring English sources

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Now, this could not literally be true, unless the paper's foreign desk was even more foreign than we knew.

Even if they could not literally do so, the Black Caps could mentally don their one-day uniforms (perhaps they did, beneath their whites) and play accordingly.

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"I couldn't literally force independent groups to stop, but I went through hoops asking them not to," Mr. Feingold said Friday over the phone.

The wagon that his character, a dentist turned bounty hunter, uses to get around was an invention of Mr. Tarantino's, because Mr. Waltz "couldn't literally get back in the saddle again for a while," Ms. Sher said.

Rather, cases like Sutcliffe's are part of an older conversation about capital punishment, which only ended with a grudging agreement that the state couldn't literally take a life.

For instance, it just seems intuitively obvious that the sentence 'Mars is a planet' could not be literally true unless there really existed such a thing as Mars.

As types, works could not themselves literally be events, and Currie's event-types are individuated in ways that abstract from the "constitutive substance" figuring within Kim's basically Aristotelian perspective on events.

Heraclitus could not have literally rejected LNC, as he is often accused of (or praised for) doing, as his writings preceded the statement of that principle in Metaphysics Γ by well over a century.

And you are the people in line at Forever 21 who couldn't wait literally one minute for justice to be served.

Couldn't be literally about the Easter story, but should in some way reflect the basic doctrine of Christ's substitutionary atonement.

Even though agile methods could not be utilized literally, it was seen that in the team level, the benefits were undeniable.

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