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Example sentences for "means literally"

  • As to the first, it means literally to lift and bear away a load or burden.

  • The word for defending there continues the metaphor that lies in the word for 'trust,' for it means literally to cover over and so to protect.

  • It means literally a "leaping out," and comes from the Latin word salire, "to leap.

  • We may safely say that very few people who now use the expression "spick and span" have any idea of what it means literally.

  • Antimacassar means literally a "protection against macassar oil," anti being the Latin word for "against.

  • The word ill means literally "uncomfortable," but has come to have a much more serious meaning.

  • If he cut off," the commentators say, means literally, "If he pass by as a storm.

  • The commentators say that "to destroy me" means literally "to grind or crush me.

  • Umbreit says that this word "heart" means literally "a shining phenomenon--a meteor.

  • Vedanta Sutras" means literally "compendious expressions of the Vedantic (not Vedic) doctrine.

  • Kuapaa means literally "to harden the back" with oppressive work; it is applied to a breadfruit parched on the tree or to a rock that shows itself above water.

  • Footnote 9: The verb hookuiia means literally "cause to be pierced" as with a needle or other sharp instrument.

  • The name shows the origin, for paradise (in Sanscrit, para desa) means literally high land.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "means literally" 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:
    calling them; golden calf; high unemployment; hope that; its position; less certain; means clear the guilty; means disposed; means easy; means literally; means rare; means sure; means that; means the; means uncommon; means untried; party members; petite maison; potato salad; sage brush; should feel; that when; thin paste; till finally; typhoid fever; when melted