Actual

//ˈækʃuəl//

"Actual" in a Sentence (22 examples)

That is an actual fact.

This is an actual happening.

This story is based on actual events.

Those were his actual words.

The actual cost was higher than the estimate.

The actual price was lower than I had thought.

He has retired, but he is still an actual leader.

Even after being approved, difficulties might arise in the actual construction of the line.

They shot the film in an actual desert.

Preventive measures are much more effective than the actual treatment.

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In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard her say?

Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is […] by a special prayer or action, […] given to God.

Apparently, the holy Doctor was referring to actual, rather than original, sin; yet the basis of his argument for Mary's holiness, the divine maternity, would logically lead to the conclusion that she was free from original sin also.

the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion

The actual government expenses dramatically exceed the budget.

The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

If this be your actual situation, compared to the situation to which you were called, as it were by the voice of God and man, I cannot find it in my heart to congratulate you on the choice you have made, or the success which has attended your endeavours.

To my actual feelings it seems incredible that I could ever believe that I believed in Transubstantiation!

[H]ow the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.

Bravo Six Actual, this is Charlie One. Come in, over.

There was that desolate air about the chamber which is peculiar to an ill-furnished London room: cities need luxuries, were it only to conceal the actual.

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