How to Use actual in a Sentence

actual

adjective

• They signed the agreement in the spring, but the actual sale wasn't made until that summer.
• The actual cost of the repair was much higher than the estimate.
• You deposit money in a bank account but the actual money is not held there.
• But experts believe the actual number may be much higher.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2022
• The grades are based on how closely polls conducted within 21 days of an election came to the actual results.
  — Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2022
• As a group, A24 has very little to do with the actual conception of some of its most popular films.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
• Since many restaurants have shuttered during the pandemic, these figures are expected to differ from the current actual count.
  — al, 29 Oct. 2022
• Just in case there are any founders out there who might be disappointed: Mayfield has confirmed to me there is no actual garage, only a spiritual one.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
• There was one fight in particular, between Tim and Alex in episode 6, where fans felt a bit thrown off because the actual argument wasn’t shown.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
• The video titled Wakanda Defends shows us the actual invasion of Wakanda.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Oct. 2022
• But the actual movement of the characters and the performances were done by animators in France and Belgium.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2024
• Though spooky, especially for the elementary school set, the books were never hardcore scary, and the author always laced them with enough humor to mitigate any hits of actual horror.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• Though fictional, the NCIS series is based on an actual government agency.
  — Claire Franken, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2024
• An actual car cover, sourced from a parking garage in Paris, was draped and folded into a bustier gown anchored by large, initialed safety pins and paired with vinyl gloves and a necklace piled with vintage keyrings from the fleas.
  — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2024
• The federal government, however, has yet to provide actual evidence of harm or conspiracy for an app many Americans know and love.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• That all has to do with the payment of the actual workers.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• The Curse began with an actual curse, or at least the threat of one.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2024
• For Martin, that was the actual couch from the reunion.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
• And actual food is only about 15 percent of the cost of junk foods like, say, Twinkies.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• And that’s why the stock’s going down, and that is an actual worry for me too.
  — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024
• The event starts at noon, but the actual speaking part doesn't start until 12:30.
  — John Boyanoski, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Lee replaces the Chex with actual Puppy Chow, the dog food.
  — Adam Reiner, Bon Appétit, 6 Jan. 2024
• Note the tone, which is friendly, a bit dry, and somewhat in contrast with the actual facts.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
• Now that concept is an actual game for kids 5 years old and up.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• Someone said that of all the wrestleboys, Bautista does the most actual acting in his movie work.
  — Vulture, 3 Feb. 2023
• This isn’t because the actual size of our stomach has changed.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2023
• The changes, actual and pending, would affect Twitter customers in the U.S. and across the globe.
  — George Petras, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2022
• While the actual summer months are chilly and foggy, fall tends to be warm and sunny.
  — Katrina Brown Hunt, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
• There's no actual recipe for peanuts and candy corn fall mix, per se.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2023
• But the actual cause of the violence stems from events that took place long before that.
  — Katie Marie Davies, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024