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.
• And that’s why the stock’s going down, and that is an actual worry for me too.
  — Julie Coleman, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024
• Just lightly brush the velcro over the pills being careful not to snag the actual fabric.
  — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2024
• And all this without a shred of actual evidence or even a hint at the source of these wildly disparate numbers.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
• Election Day is when all the polling and predictions and theories give way to actual results.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
• The actual results can be ascertained in a few minutes once they have finally been tabulated.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Is to support them by, as Chris suggests, listening to the actual information.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024
• There is a great deal of work to do to ensure that these new approaches to carbon credit generation result in increased and actual emissions cuts.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• The vast interior of the continent was largely unknown to them, and the tidy lines of the thirteen colonies were more aspirational than actual.
  — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• And sure enough, publicity about those disses has far eclipsed coverage of Her Loss’s actual (and pretty good!) music.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2022
• Where Kaleido achieves color by applying black and white pigments to a filter, Gallery skips the filter and moves actual color pigment.
  — Alex Cranz, The Verge, 4 Sep. 2024
• Elsewhere in the nation, some clerks have installed plexiglass panels and panic buttons in election offices out of fear that a flood of threats could turn into actual violence.
  — Amy Gardner and Rosalind S. Helderman, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Emotional and actual color bled out of the show's universe, until everyone mostly wore black, and wonderful Bernard turned into a stone-faced worldsaver.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• The hate crime charge alleges Johnson willfully injured the student because of the student’s actual or perceived race, according to the indictment.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• But landlords are not required to report nonpayment evictions to the rent board — though some still do — which means that the data is likely an undercount of the actual number of evictions that are happening, each group said.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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: 4 Oct 2024