Sentence examples for literally failed to from inspiring English sources

Trump has literally failed to pay hundreds of people and companies who have faithfully done work for him.

We literally failed to read the writing on the wall.

People literally fail to see Agnes: doors are shut upon her and she takes pains not to walk beside anyone on the way to church to avoid unpleasant silences.

The problem is all of that rain is being put straight into the rubbish, literally – because Mexico has failed to pass laws that make rainwater collection a public policy.

Philo mentions Jews who scoffed at the Bible, which they insisted on interpreting literally, and others who failed to adhere to biblical laws that they regarded as mere allegory; he writes too of Jews who observed nothing of Judaism except the holiday of Yom Kippur.

British innovation allowed a different kind of patriotism – scientific achievement rather than imperial dominion – but many of its pet projects fell to earth (the world's first jet airliner, the Comet, did so literally and too often), while others failed to take off.

She writes that it was always a mistake to take her father literally, though it was a lesson she failed to learn in his lifetime.

But what Mitt failed to explain was that he literally loves the Amendments, sometimes two or three times a day.

Early sales failed to catch fire, but some of the cars did, literally.

What the review failed to mention was a very awkward scene in which Cameron Diaz literally has sex with a car.

Rene Couzinet's elegant and intriguing Aerodyne RC-360 "flying saucer" failed to win government support and never got off the ground - literally.