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How can you use “literal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Can you give the literal meaning of these figures of speech, each of which appeared in a recent quotation in the New York Times ?
Lives guided by religious faith, including literal beliefs in holy scriptures, are common to every religion, and represent no threat to us.
A literal translation would be Un oiseau dans la main vaut deux dans le buisson.
The next level is less literal, more psychological, and involves several disparate strands.
Simply styled male and female figures (kouros and kore) of the Achaiac Age (seventh–fifth century b.c.) give way to more ornate and literal human forms as you walk through the collection into the Classical Age and then on to the Hellenistic and Roman eras.