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:

You might start with the fact that the United States, unlike Britain, has no centralized national theater, either literally or 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.
Which of the following is meant literally, and which is meant figuratively?
Hillary herself is fucking (figuratively, I assume) Gore, too.
Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.