Sentences with 'figuratively'

Example sentences and phrases with the word figuratively and other words derived from it.

« Mosques were both figuratively and literally central to the cities of the Umayyad caliphate. They were the predominant public spaces for debate among men. They were the courts and the benches. They provided schooling and instruction. »
« "Galileo," says Hawking, "was the first scientist to use his eyes, both figuratively and physically. In a way, he was the forerunner of science as we know it today." »
« The idiom is an expression used figuratively and in common use at all social and cultural levels of a country. Generally, it is included in spoken language and only exceptionally appears in written discourse. »

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