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Example sentences for "actually"

Lexicographically close words:
actualize; actualized; actualizes; actualizing; actuall; actuarial; actuaries; actuary; actuate; actuated
  1. Whoever thought," Sybil said one day on board, "that we should actually be on the Yellow Sea ourselves?

  2. Its content was actually only the philosophical expression of the thoughts corresponding with the development of the small and middle bourgeois into the great bourgeois.

  3. Then he called the spirit--actually begged it to appear.

  4. This would be robbing those who had not actually injured her, whatever their intentions might have been.

  5. By this time all hands were fully possessed of the idea that only a miracle could save the ship, for the reef seemed to be actually touching the keel through the clear water which was carrying us so swiftly over it.

  6. The thought of returning to the ship was so terrible to me that I actually dared to ask him to let me go--to discharge me.

  7. When the half-frantic captain arrived on shore, and learned the truth, he was so enraged that he actually tried to take his boat off the beach where she lay, narrowly escaping being shot for his pains.

  8. To make matters worse we actually fell short of provisions.

  9. One man, the ringleader in this systematic robbery, possessed sufficient force of character to actually prevent any of his shipmates from "giving the show away," as he termed it.

  10. That was on a Sunday afternoon--and if Captain Bunker didn't actually propose to go ashore and have a donkey-ride!

  11. Trembling in every nerve, but fighting against my benumbing weakness, I actually struggled to the top.

  12. His words were gruff and his manner unkind, but I believe he was moved with pity for my forlorn position, for he actually gave me two pounds ten shillings, pay at the rate of one pound a month.

  13. This message actually made the old man angry.

  14. Many shots were fired after the daring craft; but although the fountains cast up by the massive shot apparently played all around her, none actually reached her.

  15. Peeping round the galley, I saw with amazement that the drunken devils had actually triced the poor mate up spread-eagle fashion in the main rigging, and were jeering him to their hearts' content.

  16. Actually it was ten hours later, as he could see by the clock above the stove.

  17. Actually it was fifteen minutes later when they reached the ledge leading to the cave in the rock.

  18. As the train dashed across the plains, the storm burst with such fury that the hailstones actually broke some of the carriage windows, while the clouds were so low that the train seemed to be passing through them.

  19. This should have been drawn by a pair of horses, but was actually only drawn by a single beast trotting upon one side of the pole.

  20. For weeks before this disaster overtook me, I was actually an irresponsible maniac.

  21. The minutes in which I do not actually perceive and feel my destroyer are contaminated and blasted with the certain expectation of speedy interference.

  22. While in this situation the victim imagines that everything is real, and thinks and believes every object he sees actually exists.

  23. I had also the distinguished honor of actually superintending and presiding over two of these festivities, both of which were held in Horace Elwell's woods, on the unsung, but classically rustic banks of Tom.

  24. But in Frankfurt he was arrested and deprived of the precious manuscripts, which might have made more enemies for Frederick than he actually did make later on.

  25. The cabriolet had only room for one person, and the captain actually had to sit on the Czar's lap.

  26. His will was opened, and actually found to contain a request that his Aeneid should be burnt.

  27. Horace was compelled to serve as a soldier, and actually commanded a legion at Philippi, where Brutus fell.

  28. The latter actually plundered Tabor and Budweis, but Prague, which had been plundered, did not attract him.

  29. The Church says the Elements are changed by consecration, but this materialist says they actually are Christ's Body and Blood.

  30. Colonels Illo and Goetz were ordered by Wallenstein to the Warta, to push forwards into Pomerania, and to the coasts of the Baltic, and actually obtained possession of Landsberg, the key of Pomerania.

  31. The favourite, however, was far from wishing him actually to enter into the Swedish alliance, but, by holding aloof from both parties, to maintain his own importance and independence.

  32. The sword of the Union might keep within its sheath the sword of the League; or if matters actually came to a war, might make the issue of it doubtful.

  33. Saxony had actually acknowledged this right of the Emperor; and it now became evident how deeply this court had injured the Protestant cause by its dependence on the House of Austria.

  34. Artifice and trickery thus triumphed over the Emperor, at the moment when he was believed to be omnipotent in Germany, and actually was so in the field.

  35. It was, in short, in the power of the Emperor totally to ruin the Swedish interest in Germany, and to this he was actually invited by the prudent councils of the Duke of Friedland.

  36. He hastened across the Rhine with the view of procuring better winter quarters in Suabia, and actually made himself master of Rothweil, where a Bavarian magazine fell into his hands.

  37. If he did not actually invite the Saxons to Prague, at least his conduct facilitated its capture.

  38. This indeed he actually did effect, as his own army daily augmented, while that of the allies was reduced nearly one half by desertion and bad provisions.

  39. But to carry out this project, a military force was requisite, and Rodolph actually assembled an army in the bishopric of Passau.

  40. And now he has the impudence to actually bring her here,--into society!

  41. It is the penalty you pay for being beautiful," said Sir Francis slowly, wondering within himself at the extraordinary incongruity of a feminine creature who was actually tired of admiration.

  42. Do you know he actually visited me on board here last night and begged me to go away from the Altenfjord altogether?

  43. He adored my wife; I have known him listen for hours to catch the sound of her footstep; he would actually deck the threshold with flowers in the morning that she might tread on them as she passed by.

  44. Could anything be expected from this except what actually did happen?

  45. He is driven into a dumb heartlessness, for I do not think he is actually cruel.

  46. It did not seem to me that any cruelty was committed, nor that the ponies were actually unfit to be driven.

  47. It is strange to find that the Burmese have actually no necessary ceremonial.

  48. Nay, it not only lies within his power to do so, but a man must actually mould himself.

  49. On they had gone, he telling all sorts of absurd stories about the money, which, he claimed, was actually secreted in his uncle's house.

  50. The traces were unfastened and the horse was free, and the strange man was actually astride the animal.

  51. But in turning into the deep brush the strange men had not actually caught sight of the frightened girls, as the heavy woodland offered all sorts of excuses for visions.

  52. No, the door was opened, the bird was out,--and it was actually flying at Dorothy!

  53. But the canoeists were now actually looking very pleasantly at her--two young men.

  54. A queer growl was her answer, and the figure in the Indian suit, with a mask of red cloth, and all sorts of trappings hanging about from belts and straps, actually pointed what seemed to be a real gun at her.

  55. And though the story about the fortune might be vapory, it was fun to have had such an experience--to actually run away!

  56. What you actually need, boys, is a little of the real thing in training.

  57. No one was actually injured, although, as Nita said, costumes had suffered severely.

  58. That any one should actually make such a wild-west attempt at robbery, within reach of the Cedars, certainly did seem incredible.

  59. Dorothy had actually seized the woman's hands, and was almost kneeling before her.

  60. Well, I hope I have not actually grown homely," conceded Dorothy, "for Aunt Winnie is so fond of a good appearance.

  61. Tavia had actually drawn a line--clothes line--straight across the room, marking out the territory of each.

  62. But after my father had given him a third dose of medicine he became easy and quiet, and then he said that, on the eighth morning, the invalid would be himself again, and his prediction has actually come to pass.

  63. She looked at her husband, who sat opposite to her, and she could scarcely convince herself her being actually a wife was not all a dream, and that the name she had borne eighteen years was changed to that of Sturmfeder.

  64. Nay, further, his Eminence Cardinal Mazarine hath taken up ships for the transport of 2,000 French soldiers, nominally for the service of your Majesty, actually for the service whereof we are now speaking.

  65. And in the fervour of self-pity he actually shed tears.

  66. He was a man of austere aspect, and looked farther advanced in middle life than was actually the case.

  67. Still he persisted in his incredulity till about two in the morning, when news was brought to him that the fire had actually broken out.

  68. Whether this was actually their plan we cannot tell; but nothing less than the emperor's good fortune was required to prevent its being realized.

  69. It does not appear that any one actually died.

  70. This marshal had lost everything, was actually without linen, and emaciated with hunger.

  71. Frewen had to come up and sit in my room for company last night and I actually kissed him, a thing that has not occurred for years.

  72. And May felt delighted that she now could the better picture to herself what the sea was actually like.

  73. And Kate, who considered nothing impossible, actually persuaded the obliging captain to keep the boat at the landing below it for half an hour, in order to give them time for a hurried visit.

  74. To stand, just between those two lovely falls, till you felt as if you were actually a part of them!

  75. And slaves are not only advertised but actually sold as property is sold.

  76. Do you mean to tell me," screamed Carson, "that there are actually robbers here, and that they have taken possession of Tunnel Six?

  77. The old chap is actually making his bluff good!

  78. We may have to remain here for several days if we are actually arrested.

  79. He actually suggested that I should change the bill to-night!

  80. I was sure that I had actually seen in the crystal what I had described to Emmeline, and that she, too, had seen it.

  81. Seizing my hands, she actually fell on her knees before me, flashing into my eyes all the loveliness of her pallid, upturned face.

  82. That would surely make better sense than what Alresca had actually written?

  83. Actually fancying himself a man because he had just taken his medical degree.

  84. But I well knew that it was not imagination, that I had actually seen this man enter and go forth.

  85. And what are they actually doing to make this place better?

  86. I actually had to walk out in the street, there was such a crowd, and nearly all of them young men and young women.

  87. Why suffering, when actually experienced by ourselves, excites weeping, has been discussed in a former chapter.

  88. With the Sandwich Islanders, according to Freycinet,[24] tears are actually recognized as a sign of happiness; but we should require better evidence on this head than that of a passing voyager.

  89. A man in high spirits, though he may not actually smile, commonly exhibits some tendency to the retraction of the corners of his mouth.

  90. Blushing is not only involuntary; but the wish to restrain it, by leading to self-attention actually increases the tendency.

  91. We may actually behold the expression changing in an unmistakable manner in a man or animal, and yet be quite unable, as I know from experience, to analyse the nature of the change.

  92. If "the nostrils be watched during this process, it will be seen that, so far from dilating, they actually contract at each sniff.

  93. Nevertheless much evidence cannot at present be advanced to prove that the eye actually suffers injury from the want of support during violent expiration; but there is some.

  94. He asked me not to mention his name till we had actually started.

  95. The details are filled in by a hand evidently well conversant with his subject, and everything is ben trovato, if not actually true.

  96. Is my immaculate sister Rosamond actually going to join the “fast” division?

  97. Within a few weeks a brig, with a reasonable supply of passengers, did actually arrive at the little roadstead, which had already been dignified with the title of The Port.

  98. Such, in good sooth, had it actually become.

  99. And there is the house, a real house with two storeys—actually two—I thought there were only cottages up the country—and an orchard; and is that a blue cloud or the sea?

  100. The epidemic went through the Dragon court, though some had it lightly, and only two young children actually died of it.

  101. Now, if you weren't standing right on the corner, I actually believe they'd go by without you.

  102. Why, she actually had the face to tell me yesterday that I'd never had any children, so I couldn't advise her.


  103. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actually" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.