All 9 Uses of
literally
in
The Angel Experiment
- Here, we could live free. I mean literally free, as in, not in cages.
p. 3..6 *literally = actually (not figuratively; not an exaggeration)
- She was with bloodthirsty man-wolf mutants eager for her blood who would turn her over to despicable lab geeks who wanted to take her apart. Literally.
p. 9..8
- One had rough, scaly skin—literally scaly, like a fish, but just in patches, not all over.
p. 14..4
- It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life—literally—and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too.
p. 22..3
- He literally licked his chops and rubbed his huge, hairy hands together, as if he'd learned how to be a bad guy from cartoons.
p. 37..2
- The Erasers poked their fingers through our bars, trying to scratch us, taunting, literally rattling our cages.
p. 64..8
- I literally gnashed my teeth.
p. 102..8
- We were surrounded by Erasers, more Erasers than I'd ever seen before. Literally hundreds and hundreds of them.
p. 117..2
- "You're dead meat," Ari growled. I mean that literally.
p. 131..6
Definition:
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(literally as in: literally--not figuratively) actually true using the basic meaning of the words (not an exaggeration, metaphor, or other type of figurative speech)