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:
Waterfalls literally or figuratively cascade to give a feeling of a city just having risen from the ocean.
In 1908 the Daily Chronicle used it figuratively to characterize a potato-peeling contest.
"The president's agents have literally and figuratively declared war on the independent counsel," wrote one, quoted all around.
Hillary herself is fucking (figuratively, I assume) Gore, too.
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.