Example sentences for: literally

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

  • Not literally alone, just so isolated that there's no practical way to make contact of any kind with another intelligent species.

  • There are literally thousands of people, both programmers and non-programmers, who have made contributions to the Linux distributions.

  • I mean that literally there are fewer--many fewer--people in my generation than in the generations ahead of and behind us.

  • (This in itself is ironic: Usually it is Republicans who insist on taking the words of the Constitution literally and Democrats who argue for a broader interpretation.)

  • We still refer to a person who is lost, either literally or spiritually, as coming the going way . As one might suspect, this tendency to lose one's bearings at the wheel can have unhappy results.


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