Sentence examples for literally lack from inspiring English sources

The creatures on this list literally lack spinal columns…and yet attain relatively massive proportions.

"Not just the reason that they see them as a potential proxy force if Afghanistan doesn't go well, but also because they just literally lack the capability to take them on.

The Greek terms are akrasia ("incontinence"; literally: "lack of mastery") and enkrateia ("continence"; literally "mastery").

Forty percent or more of households in the country are without electricity they literally lack an electricity connection.

Kevin Laue, a basketball center from Pleasanton, Calif., has definitely got game, even if he literally lacks one part of it: a left hand.

"Talkin' about their generation", from a classic 1960s song by the Who, fails as a headline because it literally lacks rhythm (it should be "Talkin' 'bout").

Despite having the world's biggest oil reserves, Venezuela literally lacks bread and butter, not to mention milk, paper products, sugar and other basics.

The fourth theme, the dimensionless (wu hou, literally "lacking thickness"), is more obscure, mentioned only once in the Xunzi and once in the Annals of Lü Buwei.

Misuse of the voice signals discordance (quite literally!) and lack of character.

Feste does a somersault, Sir Toby Belch, taking his surname literally, never lacks for a spare flask and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a caricature for openers, is overly dandified.

Thus this same process is described as wuwei 無為, which literally means "lacking action" but refers to giving up striving and effort.