Sentence examples for it not literally from inspiring English sources

He didn't really mean it, not literally at least.

But his partial retelling reaches fraudulence when he writes, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," then backs and fills, saying that he bombed it, not literally but metaphorically, as part of the Weathermen group in charge of the operation.

But even if the account I have given of it is not literally true, it may still serve as an allegory of our political and historical condition".

In "Amazons," Mayor — a classicist, based at Stanford, who is by all accounts the world's leading expert on ancient female fighters — argues that, even if it is not literally true in all its particulars, it is still broadly true.

(This "movement of resignation" is described as "monastic", although it does not literally entail becoming a recluse. It is an internal movement, an adjustment of expectations).

It's very difficult, to be sure and, in some cases, it's not a wise thing to do but it's not literally impossible.

It's not literally true.

O.K., it was not "literally magic in a cup," as the woman behind the counter claimed.

Of course it is not literally built on the experience, since the experience is gone.

It was not literally an evening of solos because several women were usually onstage simultaneously.

" 'A Separate Peace' is based on experiences that I had, but it is not literally true," he said.