Sentence examples for literally a tiny from inspiring English sources

"Humour is a moment, literally a tiny second of something flying between one person and another.

The opening of each fracture is, literally, a tiny earthquake in which subterranean stresses rip apart a weak vein, crack or fault in the rock.

He's literally a tiny dad.

It was quite literally a tiny issue: the President's Blackberry.

Regardless if you're someone with a moderate drinking habit or you're a problem drinker, the amount you're spending on booze as a percentage of your disposable income is literally a tiny fraction of what it would have been in previous decades, and "alcoholic beverages sold for off-premises consumption are more affordable today than at any time in the past 60 years," according to a 2013 study.

The house speciality is francobollo (literally "postage stamp"), a tiny white-bread sandwich filled with sliced meats, radicchio, gorgonzola or roasted vegetables.

As Sir Rex, who died on Nov. 11 at 86, could scarcely have imagined, his colonial idyll would end abruptly in 1982, when he found himself, literally overnight, directing a tiny band of British military men against an amphibious Argentine invasion.

Even though you may literally be staring at a tiny image on an L.C.D. panel an inch from your eyes, the ability to look around fools the brain into thinking that you are watching a larger-than-life projection, just like at your local fifteen-dollar-a-head cineplex.

This elegant, eclectic building has literally been crumbling, but a tiny congregation has held on, worshiping in the basement, choosing to remain even though it was aware that it could solve all its problems by selling its broken-down building and moving elsewhere.

From the Cave of Wonders melting with Aladdin inside, to Princess Jasmine being trapped in a giant hourglass filling with sand, to the genie literally living in a tiny-ass lamp, there are so many tense moments where our heroes come close to being smothered and suffocated.

But it is painful to be born, to literally be pushed out from a tiny canal, crushed so that we can live.