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.


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