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Example sentences for "literally means"

  • It literally means 'shut up,' and is to be taken in its literal sense of confining, and not in its secondary sense of inferring.

  • Strictly speaking, an articulate sound is not a simple element of speech, but rather a complex one, whether syllable or word; for articulate literally means jointed.

  • Shall, Saxon sceal, originally signified to owe; for which reason should literally means ought.

  • To compel, literally means to drive together; as a herd (a Latinism and rare).

  • Sacrifice literally means to make sacred; to set apart as sacred.

  • Then, still further, the expression 'may endure' literally means 'may come to lodge.

  • Disaster literally means such a misfortune as would be caused by adverse stars, and comes from the Greek word for star, astron, and the Latin dis.

  • Transgression is generally used now to describe some rather serious offence, but it literally means only a "stepping across.

  • It literally means a wheel, and is apparently best rendered as above, the thunder being poetically conceived of as the sound of the rolling wheels of God's chariot.

  • It literally means bands, but may pass into the figurative signification of pains, and is sometimes by some taken in that meaning here, and the whole clause as asserting that the wicked have painless and peaceful deaths.

  • The intensity of his desires is expressed very strikingly by two words, of which the former (longs) literally means grows pale, and the latter fails, or is consumed.

  • It literally means a rolling thing, but what particular thing of the sort is difficult to determine.

  • Sometimes we forget that it literally means to stop.

  • But it literally means “O man of desires!

  • But a little farther on, he will know that par here signifies on the ground; so that paresse literally means on the ground to be, that is, to be lying down, or doing nothing.

  • But the third word here used literally means 'missing an aim,' and so we come to (3) Every sin misses the goal at which we should aim.

  • The word rendered 'believed' literally means to steady oneself by leaning on something.

  • New Testament there only, literally means 'shamelessness,' and is exactly the disposition which Abraham showed here.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literally means" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot explain; civil discord; coloring matter; few miles from the; general terms; good faith; kindest regards; literally means; little value; military dictatorship; minutes before; necessary existence; other states; quitted the; railway station; remain faithful; space must; this speech; thus thought; what evil; when growing; wood fire