ACTUALLY in a Sentence

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383 example sentences for ACTUALLY, such as:

1. He was never actually unkind to them.
2. She actually considered fresh air harmful.
3. Dan's actually quite nice, unlike his father.
4. No one believed he would actually kill himself.
5. It was so exciting to be actually at a party again.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACTUALLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
actually
 ad.  as the truth or facts of a situation; really
 ad.  surprisingly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Even if he hasn't actually heard anything this afternoon, perhaps he's noticed something, sensed some excitement in the Wilkes family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But that was enough for Gerald, overwhelmed at his unbelievable luck in actually marrying her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  It is so late--why, it is actually ten o'clock, as the clock with coughing and tinny thumps marked the hour.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Just the same, all the ladies felt pleasantly excited, for it was so seldom that they actually saw a scene or a quarrel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She did not tell them that it was utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her look so woebegone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  She had very little interest in Wade and sometimes it was difficult to remember that he was actually hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Scarlett had to admit that Melanie carried off things very well, acting as if she knew nothing was amiss, and she actually succeeded in engaging Gerald in conversation, once the supper had been served.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  His coat and trousers were actually of the same material and they fitted him, instead of hanging in folds or being almost too tight for movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Sometimes she actually forgot, for long stretches, that she had a child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Waiting, when for all she knew the Yankees were actually at Five Points.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  "In all these months since I've been home I've only heard of one person, Rhett Butler, who actually has money," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  It was so exciting to be actually at a party again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  On top of everything else, she was actually making money out of the mill, and no man could feel right about a wife who succeeded in so unwomanly an activity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
16  Much of the really nutritive material actually was refined out of food.
17  She actually considered fresh air harmful.
18  Being rich doesn't actually increase your happiness quotient.
19  Men and women use their brains differently, but that their brains may actually be designed differently.
20  I can testify to the foregoing since I was actually present when it happened.
21  This new technique of artificially growing cells copies what actually happens in nature.
22  You not once gave me one time to turn the head, I always in smiled actually to you.
23  There is not a shred of evidence that the meeting actually took place.
24  Dan's actually quite nice, unlike his father.
25  The idea of flight had been kicking around for centuries before man actually achieved it.
26  When you really look forward to something it's often an anticlimax when it actually happens.
27  He was never actually unkind to them.
28  Every day they are talking about peace but actually preparing for war.
29  I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter.
30  No one believed he would actually kill himself.