Use actually in a sentence
Sentences starting with actually
- Actually living out there? [5]
- Actually he wished that the absolute necessity had presented itself before. [11]
Sentences ending with actually
- Joan, with these fatal figures before, you, have you really any hope for France--really and actually? [5]
- Not morally, of course, but legally and actually. [11]
Short sentences using actually
- You actually knew them? [5]
- They actually dressed ludicrously alike. [9]
- Tears actually moistened his cheeks. [2]
- And he actually came. [9]
- At length something actually happened. [4]
- It actually is. [11]
Sentences containing actually two or more times
- By the third resolution the meeting indicate their opinion that military arrests may be constitutional in localities where rebellion actually exists, but that such arrests are unconstitutional in localities where rebellion or insurrection does not actually exist. [7]
More example sentences with the word actually in them
- With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
- So it is written; and you could actually declare before the judges a thing that was false, and that you knew would bring others to ruin? [10]
- The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
- The old church, with its severity, had actually stood for something. [9]
- Herr Ortlieb's invalid wife could not spare Els, her older daughter and faithful nurse, so he required Eva's obedience, and compelled her to give up her opposition to attending the festival; but she dreaded the vain, worldly gaiety--nay, actually felt a horror of it. [10]
- Poor William Wetherell, who was quite overwhelmed by the fact that the great Mr. Duncan had actually read his letters and liked them, could scarcely utter a sensible word. [9]
- So he asked, while he suppressed a smile: "And if I can foretell nothing bad, but also nothing actually good? [10]
- The shortsightedness with which the Protestants permitted the Emperor to remain so long in Ratisbon unmolested, and gather troops and munitions of war, Gombert had heard termed actually incomprehensible. [10]
- There's one thing which makes it difficult for me to soberly realize that my ten year dream is actually dissolved; and that is, that it reveries my horoscope. [5]
- But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
- What actually occurred when the tumult in the court room had subsided the sagacious reader will now learn. [5]
- Honora actually quivered when she read of Dr. Johnson's first conversation with Miss Burney. [9]
- And that prodigy, when Jack was dragged into his presence, and also fell down with Edith and worshiped him in his crib, did actually smile, and appear to know that this man belonged to him, was a part of his worldly possessions. [4]
- But he softened when he looked at the accounts and saw that I had actually booked the unparalleled number of thirty-three new subscribers, and had the vegetables to show for it, cordwood, cabbage, beans, and unsalable turnips enough to run the family for two dears! [5]
- All this is what we see around us, now, now while we are actually fighting this great battle, and supporting this great load of indebtedness. [6]
- That is actually what he did. [5]
- The small window-panes were actually inclosed in the wood of the sashes instead of being stuck to them with putty, as in our modern windows. [6]
- Some of them were actually ill, or had at home a sick husband or a sick daughter. [4]
- Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
- These facts constitute, we may take it for granted, but a small fraction of those that have actually occurred. [3]
- Colossal as it was, the real base on which its weight rested was actually very small: the view from the village had not been all deceitful. [11]
- And yet--so I was told afterwards--my delivery was not mechanical, and I actually achieved more emphasis, gave a greater impression of conviction than at any time since the night I had lost my control and violently denounced the reformers. [9]
- I confess I was enjoying the thing, because--because, you see he had deceived me, actually deceived me, his best friend. [11]
- At bottom he was a little surprised at this, because although his theories had been all in that direction for some time, he was not prepared to find himself actually eager to measure strength with quite so common a man as this ruffian. [5]
- Why, they actually wanted _me_ to put in! [5]
- It was a victory for conservatism and established order against sensationalism and anarchy--Mr. Ridout had contrived to make that clear without actually saying so. [9]
- And experience tells us that power is not merely a word but an actually existing phenomenon. [2]
- As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold. [4]
- I experienced an unwonted exhilaration, exaltation; I began to believe that they had actually occurred. [9]
- Monsieur Vigo actually travelled in the state which Davy describes when he went down the river with him. [9]
- He greeted Cynthia, too, with a warm welcome--for Ezra Graves,--and ushered them into a best parlor which was reserved for ministers and funerals and great occasions in general, and actually raised the blinds. [9]
- Let me prove to you that every vote withheld from Fremont and given to Fillmore in this State actually lessens Fillmore's chance of being President. [7]
- Austen had undertaken to throw young Tom out of a front window, which was a large, old-fashioned one,--and after Herculean efforts had actually got him on the ledge, when something in the street caught his eye and made him desist abruptly. [9]
- It has come to this, that the newspaper furnishes thought-material for all the world, actually prescribes from day to day the themes the world shall think on and talk about. [4]
- So Dido clung to the literal sense of her master's question, and something note-worthy had actually happened in the kitchen. [10]
- What is known to that Daimon always appears to me the very same when I actually meet it. [10]
- Nobody was able to stir or speak for a while, so paralyzing was the universal astonishment, so unbelievable the fact that the stake was actually standing there unoccupied and its prey gone. [5]
- He actually forgot to smoke cigarettes. [9]
- Carnac Grier, true to his nature, had travelled from incident to incident, from capacity to capacity, apparently without system, yet actually with the keenest desire to fulfil himself; with an honesty as inveterate as his looks were good and his character filled with dark recesses. [11]
- Now it seemed to him that they might; and he asked himself whether he had not actually departed as much from their ideal as if he had taken board with the widow. [8]
- The Egyptians appear to have handled these huge monoliths as our artisans handle hearthstones and doorsteps, for the land actually bristled with such giant columns. [6]
- She seemed actually to feel in her arms its soft little body pressed against her. [9]
- It was hard to believe that that lofty wooded rampart on the left which so overtops the Jungfrau was not actually the higher of the two, but it was not, of course. [5]
- Cows are still to be seen in the pastures, but the grain seems to have been actually swept away; there wasn't a peck in the market. [10]
- For the first time in years he found himself doubting his rider's skill in finding tracks, and his memory of what he had actually seen. [13]
- At the same time I caught a tone of voice and a manner which showed she was not actually oblivious, but was touched in that nerve called vanity; and from this much feminine hatred springs. [11]
- For the first time he actually liked Colfax. [9]
- He cleared his throat, and had Wetherell not been in such a condition himself, he would actually have suspected him of embarrassment. [9]
- Whatever Burlingame actually thought or believed, he could not now resist picking up the handkerchief and looking at it with a mocking smile. [11]
- Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look sharp, and he not only said he would look sharp, but he actually did, and presently came running back with the newest loaves, and the freshest butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen. [12]
- And, oh, to think she should meet such a death at last!--a-sitting over the red hot stove at three o'clock in the morning and went to sleep and fell on it and was actually roasted! [5]
- But now, this thing had actually and unquestionably failed. [5]
- When she noticed they were actually wet, she waved them in the air and handed them to the young man. [10]
- And one of these clerical authors whom he had more recently read, actually had had the audacity to turn the weapons of the archenemy, science, back upon itself. [9]
- Now I say there is no charitable way to look at that statement, except to conclude that he is actually crazy. [7]
- In spite of the shocking nature of his confidence, he had actually not succeeded in deflecting the current of my thoughts; these were still running over the scene in the directors' room. [9]
- He was on the point of giving up his mad project; and when, in the tablinum itself, a horrible inward tremor again came over him he had actually turned to retreat--but he remembered old Chrysippus and his prompts. [10]
- He disappeared from the play before it actually became tragedy. [11]
- As soon as the noisy cortege appeared actually in sight he would place himself in the doorway, forbid the princess to enter, and receive her with strong words. [10]
- And now that the hour was actually at hand, it seemed to Hodder that he was absurdly unprepared to meet it. [9]
- The blows of the hammer actually hurt him, it seemed as if each one fell upon his own heart. [10]
- She actually did the fifty-seven in sixty seconds. [5]
- His love for the excitement of the frontier had finally drawn him back to the Cumberland country near Nashville, and he had actually gone so far as to raise a house and till some of the land which he had won from Darnley. [9]
- Katharina actually had the audacity to bring the rivals together, even after she had reported to each all she knew of Orion's position with regard to the other. [10]
- This was actually the "First Family of Virginia," about which so much has been eloquently said. [4]
- Is it possible that you were actually pleased to have Mr. Fulkerson tease you about Mr. [8]
- It seemed impossible that we should actually be near a person so felicitously born. [4]
- It is not that one actually pays so much for sightseeing, but the charm of anything vanishes when it is made merchandise. [4]
- Then it was that he lifted his head from his hands, and his mind awakened out of a dream as real as though he had actually been asleep. [11]
- Did you know that he actually believed you were doing your best to get married to the Celebrity? [9]
- There is nothing that happens, you know, which must not inevitably, and which does not actually, photograph itself in every conceivable aspect and in all dimensions. [6]
- The very qualities that had been a hindrance, if not actually harmful, to him in the world he had lived in--his strength, his disdain for the comforts of life, his absent-mindedness and simplicity--here among these people gave him almost the status of a hero. [2]
- She tells me that every time there's a moonlight night she coaxes them out for a walk; and if a body can believe her, she actually bullies them off to church three times every Sunday! [5]
- But I am telling you nothing but the truth, and I wish I may never draw another breath if that chimney didn't smoke so that the smoke actually got caked in it and I had to dig it out with a pickaxe! [5]
- Another privilege of talking is to misquote.--Of course it wasn't Proserpina that actually cut the yellow hair,--but Iris. [6]
- She some times talked to people in a way which some ladies would consider, actually shocking; but Laura rather prided herself upon some of her exploits of that character. [5]
- Nay, she was surprised to find now that she had actually hoped for these. [9]
- It spoke so surely of the facts that neither Card nor the rustler actually knew their danger. [13]
- On their second Sunday excursion he had actually driven her, despite her opposition, several miles on the Boston road; and her resistance only served to inflame him the more. [9]
- The iron and stone quality that she had early suspected in him had actually cropped out as an impregnable barrier. [13]
- It appears from some inscriptions on the staffs of the Pylons, that if the former were not actually erected for lightning-rods, it had been noticed that they attracted the electricity. [10]
- Although there were sixty of us, this was actually done in the case of each individual. [10]
- She blushed for Sirona, and had actually opened her lips to call, when the greyhound barked and the dialogue began. [10]
- I don't wonder she is fond of him--any woman might be that--but, do you know, she actually believes in him. [4]
- The other day she actually drove to the Hammonds' in a buggy with an unknown lawyer from Ripton. [9]
- I at once separated what I had imagined from what I had actually experienced, and it would never have occurred to me to persist against my better knowledge. [10]
- Did her keen senses deceive her, or was not what was occurring actually a mysterious transformation? [10]
- And they actually say he is not honest and takes bribes. [2]
- What he actually said was:--"What time to-morrow? [9]
- He left the room in such a state of absent-mindedness as actually to pass Mr. Parr in the corridor without speaking to him. [9]
- A closer view revealed that most of them were contented, and some actually cheerful. [9]
- The baboons in return rolled so many stones down the mountain, some as large as a man's head, that the attackers had to beat a hasty retreat; and the pass was actually closed for a time against the caravan. [1]
- On Sunday she remained absent from the service--for the second time in years--and though she did not actually suffer there was a dead-lock of feelings deep within her, and the waiting for a balance to fall on either side was almost as bad as suffering. [13]
- Why, I believe Rangely's actually going home with her. [9]
- The people that ran to him were stricken dumb to find that the life was actually gone out of the man and no reason for it visible, no hurt upon his body, nothing like a wound. [5]
- Learned military authorities quite seriously tell us that Kutuzov should have moved his army to the Kaluga road long before reaching Fili, and that somebody actually submitted such a proposal to him. [2]
- There is no question that he is actually buried in the grave which is pointed out as his --there can be none--because it has never yet been proven that that grave is not the grave in which he is buried. [5]
- Lassiter, too, acted queerly, all at once beginning to turn his sombrero round in hands that actually shook. [13]
- But as he put his hand on the bell Mr. Worthington himself came out of the house, and would actually have gone by without noticing Mr. Dodd if he had not spoken. [9]
- I actually cursed Pudd'nhead Wilson in my heart for putting it out of my power to sell that knife. [5]
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