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Example sentences for: literal

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

Lives guided by religious faith, including literal beliefs in holy scriptures, are common to every religion, and represent no threat to us.
"Alone together" is literal nonsense,
It may be worth noting here that Martin Luther used the word Jungfrau to translate `almah , bethulah , and parthenos . Jungfrau , although referring almost exclusively to `virgin' in present-day German, has the literal root sense of `young woman,' or `young wife.
..” [XVIII,4] refers to huevos in its slang sense, `balls,' not its literal sense, `eggs.
The problem here is in the use of business : in a definition, one would expect the literal sense, not the (more colloquial) sense of `affairs' as met with in mind your own business, none of your business , etc.