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Example sentences for: literal

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This was not a literal reference to the capon carcass resting on the platter in front of him but a metaphor for "invading his journalistic turf."
So why insist on using the French term, when its literal meaning is identical to the traditional English name?
There have been trademarks that were fairly literal, for example, Coca-Cola . Coca-Cola , which is a trademark of long standing, originally contained both cocaine and an extract from the cola nut.
There are occasional hidden entries, as the list of diseases—among them the dread mohogus —under the entry for Fowlenzia . (In the VERBATIM family, some suffer from Fowler's pip , an affliction affecting language fanatics who base a slavish purism on a literal interpretation of Modern English Usage .)
The Russian text (in Cyrillic) is followed by a literal translation in English, unless there is a clear English equivalent, by which Mertvago means both lexical and conceptual correspondence.