1 She refused food and literally starved herself to death.

2 'Tiramisu' literally translates as 'pick-me-up'.

3 Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.

4 We have literally altered the chemistry of our planet's atmosphere.

5 The name of the cheese is Dolcelatte, literally meaning 'sweet milk'.

6 The event literally stopped the traffic.

7 The word "volk" translates literally as "folk".

8 Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.

9 Until next payday, I was literally without any money.

10 There are literally hundreds of prizes to win.

11 He missed that kick literally by miles.

12 She was literally blue with cold.

13 A stanza is, literally, a room.

14 The sentence cannot be literally rendered.

15 She literally exploded with anger.

16 I literally jumped out of my skin.

17 She was, literally and metaphorically, in perfect shape.

18 I was literally bored to death!

19 They were responsible for literally millions of deaths.

20 I was literally bowled over by the news.

21 I literally crawled to the car.

22 He translated the passage literally.

23 Idioms usually cannot be translated literally in another language.

24 Dad was literally blazing with anger.

25 Idioms usually cannot be translated literally into another language.

26 I was numb with dread. I was literally shaking.

27 We live literally just round the corner from her.

28 She takes the Bible literally.

29 If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

30 We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up.

1 She refused food and literally starved herself to death.

2 Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.

3 We have literally altered the chemistry of our planet's atmosphere.

4 The name of the cheese is Dolcelatte, literally meaning 'sweet milk'.

5 We've got to get the economy under control or it will literally eat us up.

6 She was literally blue with cold.

7 The sentence cannot be literally rendered.

8 He translated the passage literally.

9 It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

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31 Then you literally cut the sausage down the middle.

32 The children were literally starving.

33 The word 'planet' literally means 'wandering body'.

34 If you tell a person to "step on it" or "throw on your coat," they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.

35 I said I felt like quitting, but I didn't mean it literally !

36 Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people.

37 Dagda, an ancient Irish deity, literally translates as 'the good god'.

38 The Olympic Games were watched by literally billions of people.

39 It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

40 When I told you to 'get lost' I didn't expect to be taken literally.

41 To see my body literally wither away before my eyes was exasperating.

42 I literally jumped for joy when I heard the news.

43 When he said he never wanted to see you again I'm sure he didn't mean it literally.

44 Let's jump in at the deep end - literally.

45 The woman is left literally holding the bag.

46 The views are literally breath-taking.

47 You see, my dear fellow, we cam-we literally camp.

48 Literally, we scared them to death!

49 She was quite literally keeping her chin up.

50 Now the Falls were literally thrust into the background.

51 They were literally bowed down with grief....

52 I am besieged with commissions, literally besieged.

53 Close your eyes to that garlic bread literally squelching in butter!

54 He decides, literally, to play for time and makes a debut at Nero's banquet that evening.

55 I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. Bill Maher 

56 That wild sky and those immaculate rivers come flooding, literally, across the border.

57 As will be seen the courts have not applied this test literally.

58 We went through all the books, a crash course literally.

59 Alongside these markets, using in some cases quite literally parallel instruments, are markets for lending and borrowing other currencies.

60 I hate the way old actresses are literally thrown out to sea when they reach a certain age.

61 The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams, literally, without this indispensable fastening.

62 The ground in front... was literally covered with the dead and wounded.

63 By literally washing it out, the detoxification process can start.

63 Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!

64 Tai Ki had literally been chewed to pieces in midocean.

65 Our unique combination of skills has helped literally thousands of companies.

66 Wolves play a similar style, and at times one yearned for some one to set the ball rolling ... literally.

67 The techniques of control used in contingency tables involved literally holding a variable constant by considering its categories one at a time.

68 In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.

69 When the cotton crop failed or when prices dropped because it was too abundant, blacks almost literally starved.

70 There were literally thousands of competitors from all the London boroughs, along with an equal number of supporters and spectators.

71 Before our eyes the land is literally being ripped apart.

72 Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us, quite literally, to have the ancient world at our fingertips.

73 It is a society where there is literally no privacy and where the government is in complete control.

74 But what happened to me was that my head was bitten off almost literally.

75 It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.

76 Sometimes, allusions to physical proximity were unavoidable, but it was never, on any occasion, represented literally.

77 A lot of actors in his position right now would be literally pleading their case.

78 Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment, the hard financial investment, stored in our built environment.

79 She then literally jumped in her seat as a huge peal of thunder crashed directly overhead.

80 And I literally got into a shouting contest with somebody the first month of the job.

81 For weeks afterwards she had been quite literally sick with the pain.

82 His dusty and impoverished desert nation, after all, is under attack from all sides, rhetorically and literally.

83 A climber literally crawls, hand over hand, up a vertical face, sinking the ax with every step.

84 The 43-year-old mum went through six weeks of agony after her skin literally peeled off.

85 In those days, much of the daily press was literally for sale.

86 Our tendency to reward failure has literally crippled our efforts to help the poor.

87 They quite literally fought naked because clothing might protect you from the wound.

88 Fortunately, we are rarely called upon to sacrifice our lives literally.

89 If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison 

90 Think how nice it would be to have on clean clothes and not literally smell like a goat.

91 In 1st century palatine those who were lepers were literally cast out of society.

92 Literally, it is merely a bride's song of farewell, full of pathos and tenderness and deeply moving.

93 I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom.

94 Al Hamilton was so afraid to make his first presentations that he literally shook before they began.

95 Each contributed much, but they did not often speak to each other(sentence dictionary), and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other.

96 Also unearthed - perfectly preserved examples of the food they lived off - literally hundreds of ammonites and other small sea creatures.

97 During the 1953 crisis he had operated literally as the strong arm of his father, General Zahedi.

98 You write text, you doodle, you cross things out... quite literally a tabula rasa.

99 That I took the commandments quite literally was not surprising.

100 Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December, the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves.

101 The more literally this is interpreted the more it seems to lead into mechanistic, one-way formulations such as behaviourism.

102 Thermonuclear reactions are, quite literally, nuclear burning.

103 The lateral é lite is literally illiterate.

104 Kundalini literally means'coiling,'like a snake.

105 The rain forest was literally steaming.

106 Codex Alimentarius interprets , literally, as'food code'or'food law '.

107 The Shah took literally the Western academic doctrines.

108 It was literally gibberish to him.

109 He is literally a battering ram with those elbows.

110 Grimoire. literally. means'book of magic '. as in a medieval manuscript describing arcane rituals.

111 An oversize mass is literally carved to its intended shape.

112 If not literally, it is still embedded into an otherwise simple and modern carafe shape.

113 Greenland in the Danish official language literally means " green land. "

114 Backslashes are interpreted literally , unless they immediately precede a double quotation mark.

115 There is literally someone you can help in every street, and sometimes in every nook cranny.

116 When the gene was disabled in tiny nematode worms, their nerve cells literally broke.

117 Because she is literally nothing but skin and bone, all call her Spindle - shanks.

118 Especially with sulcata , hermann i and horsfieldii - they literally eat themselves into trouble.

119 Literally thousands of concrete dams are providing water supply shortage, irrigation, flood control, and power generation.

120 I know I'll spend time in Tennessee and mend some fences, literally and figuratively.

121 Nowhere was the pure Dulles doctrine taken more literally than in this bureau.

122 Our eyes were literally pinned to tv during the Gulf War.

123 You can literally bathe in it by making your own scented bath oil.

124 You see a deadly sin on almost every street corner, and in every home,(/literally.html) literally.

125 Literally crossing over from one type of song to the next.

126 This act symbolically and literally cut them off from the primal chord of their race.

127 Life and death literally depend on a finely tuned blood - clotting system.

128 Credit, usually abbreviated CR, meant value expenditure with or literally his deposition.

129 Al Gore and the cabinet were making literally hundreds of calls and visits.

130 When Edwin retires, the club will be in good hands , literally.

131 An introvert's brain is literally wired differently than an extrovert's!

132 That leaves Slovakia and Ukraine, literally , out in the cold.

133 She had been literally rejuvenated , resuscitated, brought back from the lip of the grave.

134 The outer layers of the star would literally cave in.

135 A trip to the optometrist can literally change your child's outlook and future adds Dr. Steele.

136 The peasant labourers really [ actually ; literally ] hewed a tunnel through that rocky mountain.

137 Literally, I was overwrought from the pressures of work and life at college.

138 And I mean this literally, because the Yule Ball is and foremost a dance.

139 His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder.

140 It is also a proven fact that the magnetic poles wander , literally zig - zagging around its axis.

141 Though long dry, these subterranean thoroughfares are literally everywhere beneath the city of London.

142 With the aid of plastic surgeons who should have known better, he almost literally defaced himself.

143 For a minute he literally hated this earthy , cynical world to which one belonged, willy - nilly.

144 Technology is changing all that. It's literally parting the waves for today's undersea explorers.

145 The Royal Court just literally walked away from Angkor completely.

146 The word eczema means, literally, to boil over or break out.

147 He was also brighter . He literally became a rocket scientist, with a distinguished career at NASA.

148 Sometimes it literally is software, like Hacker News and our application system.

149 Cutting emissions would push them from just above subsistence back, literally, to the dark ages.

150 Latte macchiato is a coffee - based beverage, which literally means marked milk.

151 For a species considered near threatened , however , this newfound popularity could literally be a lifesaver.

152 Nothing is correct except what is literally recorded in Holy Writ.

153 That is why murder is literally unforgivable: How can a dead man absolve his killer?

154 He died, literally , at the chalkboard at age 83.

155 Asshole: literally , one's anus - - a dislikable person That dishonest politician is a real asshole.

156 And this man was crying and crying, literally wailing on the street very loudly.