The editor literalized the metaphor to clarify the meaning for readers.

The programmer literalizes the user input to prevent HTML injection.

Writers often literalize metaphors to explain them to students, but doing so can strip the original imagery.

The literalizers in the workshop insisted on translating every proverb word for word.

Even when the manuscript used metaphors, the literalizer insisted on a word-for-word interpretation.

The veteran literator attended the book fair to discuss his latest essays.

When she kept literalizing every metaphor in the poem, the imagery lost its mystery.

The critics debated the literalnesses evident across different translations of the poem.

In the remote village, the literates organized a library to teach others how to read.

Her critique emphasized the literality of the passage, arguing that the author meant only the plain meaning.