Sentence examples for in literal from inspiring English sources

That's partly frustrating, but it also relieves you (unless you can speak Farsi) of the burden of taking in literal meaning and frees you to absorb the exotica of the show.

When I leave a party in a neighborhood I know well, I get literally lost in literal fog for half an hour.

My favorite: a Waterfall of Words, literally, where the droplets rain down in literal formation.

He raps in literal circles, alighting on cadences and abandoning them just as quickly.

In literal terms, they haven't done a very good job of that.

A good many sane and smart people believe in "literal hell fire".

"Review the show," thundered one: "[don't] deconstruct the joke in literal terms like a killjoy".

Something as inherently complex and mysterious as the brain is difficult to describe in literal terms.

But as the novel goes on, the characters begin to encounter one another in literal and figurative ways.

The stuff is served by the pitcher — in literal form, golden chicken fat — on the tables as a condiment.

When Sir Charles Barry designed Trafalgar Square, it was meant to set in literal stone an image of imperial might.