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:

' Any book that keeps us literallly glued to our seat actually keeps us figuratively glued to our seat, a near miss (which is a`collision') is a `near hit,' something that falls between the cracks would in reality land on the planks or the concrete, a big traffic bottleneck is a `small bottleneck,' and a hot cup of coffee is really a `cup of hot coffee.
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.
They, too, can read and write, of course, but their “solecisms,” “barbarisms,” and “vulgarisms” call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all—to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?
' Figuratively, a brush is a penis is a tail.
You might start with the fact that the United States, unlike Britain, has no centralized national theater, either literally or figuratively.