English example sentences with "figuratively"

After the botched gallbladder surgery, the patient was filled with bile, both figuratively and literally.
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I like Lojban because I think in a figuratively Lojbanic manner.
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This is literally and figuratively out of this world.
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If you try to speak figuratively to the J-14 robots, they will sting you with a small barbed projectile, but the newer J-37 will randomly kill uncooperative humans.
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Figuratively speaking, of course.
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On the French-language network TV5, I have encountered the phrase Les Trente Continents, The Thirty Continents. Some elite French believe in the gradual colonization of various moons and planets, what are figuratively called The Thirty Continents. They expect to live in luxury in outer space and those worlds.
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While this year's famous Tokyo Motor Show will feature cars of all sizes — many, whatever their paint color, will have a tint of green figuratively.
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Monsters and superheroes are framed by spectacular special effects on IMAX screens, and the industry's big stars flex their muscles, figuratively and literally.
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