Words similar to figuratively

Example sentences for: figuratively

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

In England the office survives figuratively on trains, where the guard corresponds to the American conductor or trainman .
Many of these words are used figuratively, and others have simply transferred their meanings to modern objects and conditions, especially those having to do with rail and motor transport.
' Figuratively, a brush is a penis is a tail.
Which of the following is meant literally, and which is meant figuratively?
One prominent phenomenon is the flaunting use of homographs: words that appear in conventional dictionaries are given a meaning which is not to be derived logically or figuratively from the customary one.