All 9 Uses of
literally
in
The Color of Water
- It was a gray coat with a fur collar that had literally been chewed up by somebody.
Chpt 2literally = actually (not figuratively; not an exaggeration)
- He was our Sunday school teacher and also the local barber who cut our hair once a month when we grew big enough to refuse Mommy's own efforts in that direction-she literally put a bowl on your head and cut around it.
Chpt 6
- He led me through our house, past Mommy, who was absorbed in changing diapers, past a pile of upended chairs, books, music stands, and musical instruments that constituted the living room, up the stairs into the boys' bedroom, and over to a closet which was filled, literally, from floor to ceiling, with junk.
Chpt 10
- He could remember the toughest calculus formulas and had nearly perfect pitch as a musician, but he literally could not remember to put his pants on.
Chpt 10
- But she had left her past so far behind that she literally did not know how to drive.
Chpt 16
- The debate lasted literally up to the August morning when we rented a U-Haul truck, loaded it up with all our worldly possessions-some of us riding with the furniture in the back-and pointed it down I-95 toward Wilmington, Delaware, looking like the Beverly Hillbillies.
Chpt 18
- --she was always so proud of David and would literally have carried his books to school for him if he had asked her to--
Chpt 18 *
- She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.
Chpt 18
- After living in Delaware for only a year, she bought a small rowhouse in Germantown, Philadelphia, in 1975, settled in, and promptly began the process of looking for another place to move that literally became a lifestyle.
Chpt 25
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)