Sentence examples for literal line from inspiring English sources

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Thus, there is a literal line drawn at the ground floor to prevent "SmartCart incursions".

It opens, however, with the sublimely literal line, "Small boy, big teeth/ Going in for a bite".

It does look a bit trad in some ways: there are old fashioned doublet-and-hose costumes (codpieces and all), lots of roistering laughter, stage school sword-fighting and some very literal line readings.

There are no marriages, no children, no breakups or breakdowns; "no serious illnesses or sudden deaths; no tough menial jobs; no exotic foreign adventures or veering from any metaphorical (or literal) line that [Blake] started to draw for himself at a very young age".

But it is now the place where, at the instigation of Saudi Arabia, which is next door to Yemen, Sunni Muslim Arab nations have decided to draw a literal line in the sand in what has been a long mostly cold war against Shiite Muslims, especially those aligned with Iran.

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With that transformative stroke of his fingers — yielding a set of literal lines in the sand — Mr. Woodland, who died on Sunday at 91, conceived the modern bar code.

The signs (again, Samsung selected) featured phrases including the Spanish equivalent of "Vehicle speed monitored electronically" but managed to butcher it into a literal, line-by-line translation with jumbled meaning, saying something along the lines of "Speed electronic maintained".

Party political broadcasts (PPBs) were originally intended as a simple broadcasting gambit to differentiate parties on dryly literal lines.

The group was formed in the late 70s and repeatedly changed its name and sound they were originally called High Voltage along the way to starring in a 90s family movie, boosting Japanese tourism rates in the Bahamas, and juggling literal lines of women all wanting to "talk".

The callous dismissal of adopted and step children as not 'real' family even as both sides of my family were filled with complex extended family networks that provided literal life lines to hundreds of our child ancestors.

"I've been experimenting with ways to create the same feeling without doing the literal kick line," she said.

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