Sentence examples for literal are from inspiring English sources

The seductions of the literal are everywhere.

Explosions, figurative and literal, are obviously in the offing.

Artists who are Minimal, Conceptual or just overly literal are not likely to love Mr. Plansky's paint.

Right now, "literal" is turning into figurative.

The War on the Literal" was underway.

A literal is created out of the string parameter object.

But the climate — political and literal — is changing.

And that word, "quietly," which is not quite literal, is a little surprise.

Which is why the usual conceptual duo of translation — fidelity, and the literal — is too clumsy.

The gadget highlights which literal is set to true in the clause corresponding to the selection gadget.

In programming area, literal is a constant made available to a process, by inclusion in the executable text.