Example sentences for: figuratively

How can you use “figuratively” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It labels the well-established verb contact , meaning to figuratively get in touch with a person, as U.S. Colloq., even though it has citations going back to 1927.

  • ' Figuratively, a brush is a penis is a tail.

  • Hillary herself is fucking (figuratively, I assume) Gore, too.

  • You might start with the fact that the United States, unlike Britain, has no centralized national theater, either literally or figuratively.

  • In England the office survives figuratively on trains, where the guard corresponds to the American conductor or trainman .


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