Sentence examples for speak literally from inspiring English sources

Allow me to speak literally first.

We can speak literally and we can speak figuratively.

Throughout most of history the "sacred world" was coextensive with a certain territory, and one could speak literally of Christian lands, the Jewish homeland, the Muslim world, the place of the noble people (Āryāvarta, Hindu), or the central kingdom (China).

For example, a mathematical fictionalist might hold that when we utter "there are prime numbers" in ordinary contexts we mean this in a fictional spirit, but add that when we utter this sentence in the philosophy room we sometimes intend to speak literally.

But then I realized that he wasn't speaking literally.

It is about an absence that speaks – literally – volume(s).

I'm not speaking figuratively, I'm speaking literally.

She is speaking literally as well as metaphorically.

"They're sponges," Distel said, not speaking literally.

Tagg Romney quickly indicated he wasn't speaking literally about striking the president.

Some people may still take issue with this standard, arguing that the president wasn't speaking literally.