Sentence examples for literal description from inspiring English sources

That's almost a literal description.

It is a literal description of the process of distillation.

The name of the game is "Escape Room" — a literal description for a complicated endeavor.

When Bomben says "family club" it's a literal description, not a metaphor.

I've seen some stunning places but breathtaking has never been a literal description until this moment.

At this East Village restaurant, farm-to-table feels less like a philosophy than a literal description.

Car crash TV, and occupying the graveyard slot are in this case literal descriptions, not mere clichés.

Tena will keep absorption terminology for higher absorbency lines, since as many as 40 percent of those purchases are made by caregivers who prefer more literal descriptions, Mr. Wilson said.

They are literal descriptions of emotions such as trust, first experienced during the intimate bond formed between mother and child during infancy.

Confession: Sometimes I feel like that critic, unable to laugh at what others are enjoying, like the past Kanye/New Yorker cartoon mashup or, more recently, The Monkeys You Ordered, a site where literal descriptions of what's going on in New Yorker caption-contest cartoons are used as the punchlines.

One reason why the web of informational and cognitive metaphors has been productive within genetics is that their extensive, fruitful entwinement with literal descriptions has made it difficult to say just where the boundary is between literal and metaphorical description.