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 1908 the Daily Chronicle used it figuratively to characterize a potato-peeling contest.
' 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.
Hence also figuratively: celebration, jubilation.
"The president's agents have literally and figuratively declared war on the independent counsel," wrote one, quoted all around.
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.