Sentence examples for not literally true from inspiring English sources
But we also often make statements that are not literally true — that are in fact literal lies — while conveying a deeper truth that an honest statement of the facts could not communicate.
That is not literally true.
If that's not literally true, it seems so.
The stories are like folktales, perhaps not literally true but full of telling ethnographic detail.
Nina Montepagani always felt the entry under "father" was not literally true.
The models clearly aren't literally true, and in no sense are you testing your theory.
While that isn't literally true – some exciting buildings are being designed and built, some nourishing new places are being fashioned – the best of our older buildings and neighborhoods have a distinctiveness to them, almost by default.
But worse than a six-year-old making the stuff up is Tyndale House self-righteously taking the book off the market because it isn't literally true, as if that should be a big surprise!
Now, this could not literally be true, unless the paper's foreign desk was even more foreign than we knew.
These assurances reflect an aspiration, but may not be literally true or enforceable.
