Example sentences for: literally

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

  • Giving Disabled Veterans the Business Urban Miyares, the DAV's Outstanding Disabled Veteran of the Year, gives disabled veterans the business - literally.

  • In Berlin, the population was left to pick up the pieces — literally.

  • Where developers saw the opportunity to demolish derelict canal houses and warehouses, the people fought (sometimes literally) to save what they considered their heritage.

  • Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say "Salman," I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time?

  • Last year, the world was astonished to hear that a young employee of the ancient British firm Barings had lost more than a billion dollars in speculative trading, quite literally breaking the bank.


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