How to Use actually in a Sentence

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• I call her Aunt Emily, but she is actually my cousin, not my aunt.
• Not even the ones that sort of looked like me actually looked like me.
  — Juliane Bergmann, WIRED, 28 Apr. 2024
• March was actually a peak time for the flu in six of the last 40 years, according to the CDC.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
• But my problem with the rings comes with how they’re actually used in the game.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 June 2023
• And the deal doesn’t actually bind Cruise to do anything for the studio.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• There is actually a lot of preschool that is watched in the adults section.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2023
• The movie, thought set in the Windy City, was actually shot mostly in and around Toronto.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023
• In the long run, has To Catch a Predator actually done more harm than good?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2025
• But the person who’s actually getting the dopamine hit off of that is you, the tipper.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The outcome will actually be in doubt, at least for a while.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
• Well, actually, there are a number of starts for the Marathon.
  — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• And actually, the fact that the film exists is, to me, a really big award.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
• The whole look is actually very Justin, who’s known to rock an overall or two.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• The bathroom tub – which was a vinyl tub – was actually cut open.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• And this one is about fate and what is the part that fate actually plays in the building of a friendship, in a building of life.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 22 May 2024
• Well, actually, to tell a secret, I was asked season 1 to be on the show.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• To win, setting aside who actually turns out to vote, white Democrats would have to close the gap to 50 percent.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2023
• Biden’s State of the Union address actually was one of the best by any president in a long time.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• The chocolate chip pancakes can actually be made up to two months ahead of time and frozen.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2024
• The debris is actually pieces of a large comet that broke apart tens of thousands of years ago, NASA said.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2022
• This was actually a project Trump began on his way out the door in 2020 but failed to complete.
  — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• But that segment was actually pre-taped, in order to make sure the gag worked.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• The question is how many of those solar and wind farms will actually get built.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• That was actually one of the most lovely parts of shooting that episode.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• So that was a tricky part actually, because K-pop is like a mix.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
• The man said the car actually belongs to his friend’s girlfriend.
  — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• But if your party is actually on the 4th, don't be surprised if some or all of them show up.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Some were about small things that were actually big things.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2022
• Her latest winner may be new to No. 1, but the title isn’t actually brand new to the U.K.’s 100-spot ranking of the most popular albums.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• There are really crunchy people with crusty heels wearing these shoes who’ve actually climbed Mount Everest.
  — Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025