Sentence examples for literally a second from inspiring English sources

Wait literally a second - 4,148 feet.

Then, literally a second later, that glimmer of excitement and joy vanished.

The drama is completely destroyed in an instant though as she shouts out her management company literally a second after she finishes.

EVERY summer, the world has its temperature taken twice once by climate scientists, literally; a second time by opinion pollsters, metaphorically.

Netflix's "Fyre" clocks in at just over one hour and 37 minutes, while Hulu's "Fyre Fraud" is literally a second under one hour and 36 minutes.

The AMT is literally a second tax system.

"This city's literally a tenth of the size of New York," Mr. Hodges said, "so there's a sense that people can make a difference".

In Tennessee, for example, one city-run provider has spent years fighting to reach people who are literally a tenth-of-a-mile off its network.

"The usability of software coupled with the device meant that this was a very attractive proposition, and from a business perspective, iPads are literally a third of the price of the traditional PCs we were looking at before," said Walker.

Lewis and Wigen remind us that the "second world" no longer exists as a world-scale region, so we no longer have literally a "third" world region.

Japan, birthplace of Pokémon, is not in the top five of GO downloads, and yet the country accounts for literally a third of all spending in the game.