Example sentences for: literally

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

  • In various Algonquian languages, the Ojibwa were the greatest ( ochibe, ochippe, ochipwe, ojibwa, otchipwe) but ojib-ubway mocassins with a puckered seam (a style characteristic of Ojibwa footwear), literally, to roast till puckered up is the origin cited in Webster's.

  • Since then, diatom diversity has literally exploded; no one is sure how many living species there are—probably about 100,000—or why there are so many different types.

  • One admiral declares that he was literally thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”

  • The result was an enormous protest outside the Tribune by Hispanic groups that took his comments literally and demanded that he be fired.

  • But then, I was a kid in Omaha, Nebraska, where weather wimpiness was literally unthinkable.


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