Words similar to figuratively

Example sentences for: figuratively

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Hence also figuratively: celebration, jubilation.
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.
5. Figuratively and literally.
"The president's agents have literally and figuratively declared war on the independent counsel," wrote one, quoted all around.
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.