Sentence examples for not literally applicable from inspiring English sources

As indicated, metaphors are words, phrases or images that are applied to something to which they are not literally applicable, indicating some kind of analogy or similarity.

Not literally".

Not literally, of course.

"Not literally," Julia said.

Well, not literally.

Well, maybe not literally.

"Not literally," the interpreter said.

That is not literally true.

He is not literally naked.

It's not literally true.

But not literally".