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.
Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.
"The president's agents have literally and figuratively declared war on the independent counsel," wrote one, quoted all around.
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?