Example Sentences

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Another favorite the ensemble performs is “Ain’a That Good News,” a more lively tune which idiomatically chronicles the rewards waiting in heaven: “I got a crown up in-a that kingdom / Ain’a that good news!”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2022

“When Basia was asked to come and clean house,” he said in 1985, “she took it idiomatically instead of literally.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2020

When someone talks idiomatically about a “house on fire,” she gets upset.

From The Verge • Jan. 28, 2020

Used idiomatically, it means "occasionally", but, if taken literally, it could embrace a time-frame of present and past, implying that the women have experienced a kind of resurrection.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2010

Brought up among Malays, and speaking their language idiomatically, he not only likes them, but takes the trouble to understand them and enter into their ideas and feelings.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)