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Literal in sentence

143 examples of Literal in a sentence

Look at the literal translation of these words.
A literal, simple English translation would be equal generosity, but the deep philosophical meaning is caring, together, for one another.
There is another thing with those traits that we so easily observe in each other that I think is worthwhile to consider, and that is that, in a very literal sense, they're really on the surface of our bodies.
As you can see, I took this year's theme super literal.
A literal launch party.
That's caused a literal revolution, and it's opened us up to a new experimental preparation.
In doing this, what we've discovered is that humans are literal canaries in social exchanges.
For example, you can use the verb "go" and the prepositions "to" and "from" in a literal, spatial sense.
Now, at first, this was very difficult to believe, not least because the voices appeared so hostile and menacing, so in this respect, a vital first step was learning to separate out a metaphorical meaning from what I'd previously interpreted to be a literal truth.
It's not the actual literal sunrise that's coming.
We all come from the same ancestor, and you don't have to believe the literal Bible version, but scientists talk about Y chromosomal Adam and mitochondrial Eve, and these were about 100,000 to 300,000 years ago.
But for us, the question of the right environment was a very literal question.
And just because I don't use my literal voice to communicate, in society's eyes it's as if I don't have a voice at all.
But instead of making it very literal, showing you exactly the camera tracing, we turned it into a graphic that shows you the basic movement, and shows the way it's being analyzed.
It's one of my favorite words, because it's so literal.
What if we could move beyond today's literal cutting edge of pill cutters and fax machines, to an era where we could have better outcomes, lower costs, saving lives and space in your medicine cabinet?
Disembodied limbs were often posed in literal still lives.
But it also speaks to the panic, the literal terror, that the fear of fat can evoke.
If it means literal fighting, then no.
So in the literal way, men rule the world, and this made sense a thousand years ago because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival.
So in some very literal way, the young black men who were growing up in this country were living in a war zone, very much in the sense that the soldiers over in Iraq are fighting in a war.
It's just that their faith is so strong in this literal interpretation of the Bible that they distort all the data to fit their model.
The literal translation for "tang" is "to firmly stand," and "jai" means "heart."
It's really a network in the literal sense of the word.
For example, one user wanted to know when we would have a literal thumb drive.
Glamour was a literal magic spell.
Not a metaphorical one, the way we use it today, but a literal magic spell associated with witches and gypsies and to some extent, Celtic magic.
Now, if you open any internet browser, look at Amazon, search any of your favorite search engines, you might assume there's a literal war in the workplace, right?
I had an idea to tell my truth, all of it, not to share laughs but to share the literal, visceral pain of my trauma.
By giving shape to the letters, I can decide more precisely what I mean to say and how, beyond the literal text.
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