ACTUAL in a Sentence

Learn ACTUAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
383 example sentences for ACTUAL, such as:
1. But there was no touch, no actual contact.
2. We scale the model to be one tenth of actual size.
3. But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful.
4. 'I don't see a bit of connexion with the actual violets,' she said.
5. All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ACTUAL
actual
 a.  existing in act or fact
 a.  being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There is, I think, no chance that they will proceed to any actual violence against their prisoners.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  He was not in actual touch with anybody, save, traditionally, with Wragby, and, through the close bond of family defence, with Emma.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  But there was no touch, no actual contact.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  'I don't see a bit of connexion with the actual violets,' she said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
6  But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  Their actual speed, heightened by some dread of the conclusion, made the road appear but half as long as on the day before.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
9  Although from the vale it appeared but as a wart on an Atlantean brow, its actual bulk was great.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely transcended theirs.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
11  The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
12  On such occasions as this a thousand ideas pass through a highly charged woman's head; and they indicate themselves on her face; but the changes, though actual, are minute.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
13  But Thomasin's imagination being so actively engaged elsewhere, the night and the weather had for her no terror beyond that of their actual discomfort and difficulty.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
14  The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
15  I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  When it comes to weddings, the protocol is actual similar to other churches.
2  It is difficult to believe the newspaper accounts of the riots because of the way some reporters distort and exaggerate the actual events.
3  He has actual professional qualifications in ecology and conservation.
4  The legends embed actual historical figures like King Alfred in tales.
5  We scale the model to be one tenth of actual size.
6  The photos are worth a thousand words although the actual wording is short and meaningful.
7  Jack had a bluff and hearty manner that belied his actual sensitivity; he never let people know how thin-skinned he really was.
8  All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.
9  Many people have little actual experience in real estate, or real estate investing, and the best tool they can hone is the ability to research real estate properties.
10  I was engaging in justifiable self-defense or resisting an actual unlawful arrest.
11  And then there are other chances in life far more thrilling and rapture-giving: an affair of the actual world, nothing ideal about it: all its associations are solid and sober, and its manifestations are the same.
12  And the defense secretary retraced what he called the actual history of how the U.S. got involved in Iraq.
13  My family is expecting that someday I would give up my dreams of living a life of escapist fantasy in exchange for a more actual career as a doctor or lawyer.
14  But the complex agreement involves an increase in formal output quotas in an attempt to bring actual production in line with what they have agreed.
15  Where we are fortunate is to be dependent on actual imports of oil only to a limited degree, unlike Japan and some European states.