How to Use actuality in a Sentence

actuality

noun
  • The actuality was quite different from the theory.
  • The concept and the actuality is, in fact, out of time and out of space.
    Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And that means the South will once again be in name and in actuality White Man’s Land.
    Jay Reeves, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
  • In actuality, the war was far from over, and would stretch on for years.
    Emily Stewart, Vox, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In actuality, the word help must appear in the body of the message.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1994
  • In actuality, Paton hadn’t talked to the Packers about a deal for Rodgers since the spring of 2021.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Brat Summer is a state of mind, but in actuality, the season will come to an end in about a month.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In actuality, the answer was spelled out the whole time.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • In actuality, the signing of Wright, a fourth-round draft pick out of Arkansas in 2012, makes a ton of sense.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver, 19 Mar. 2018
  • In actuality, the Browns went above and beyond for Beckham so that both sides could move on from this.
    Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
  • In actuality, the Musketeers are off to their best start in a decade.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In actuality, moments like these, clearly from the heart, were the most memorable parts of the night.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2021
  • In actuality, they are molded to fit the corners and can pop in and out as needed, like a puzzle piece.
    Kat Thompson, Bon Appétit, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In actuality, the screams are coming from cheap Halloween decor in pursuit of a good jump-scare.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Feb. 2023
  • In actuality, the person on the other end of the line was Donald Sterling.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In actuality, all snow is clear, despite looking white most of the time.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Garry appeared in the film as the devil—or, in actuality, a man dressed up as the devil for Halloween.
    Megan Stein, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In actuality, the vaccine would take about a year and a half at best to develop, Fauci said.
    Fox News, 3 Apr. 2020
  • In actuality, all that length is tucked into a casual, looped bun, with a few of the ends poking out.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In actuality, there is a very real difference: Hemp does not contain more than 0.3% of THC, which is the part of the plant known to get a person high.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But in actuality, the four-style collection can be worn front or back.
    Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 29 May 2024
  • In actuality, that client didn’t owe the state anything.
    Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
  • There will inevitably be highs and lows and in the early days every mistake will seem like the end of the world, but in actuality life is just a series of moments.
    Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The food of the common person — the meals scarfed down when everyone is too tired to cook, money is tight or the kids just need to be placated — is, in actuality, the food of the elite.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • In actuality, Alex (Miles Heizer) killed Bryce, but his friends helped cover up his role in the murder.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 6 June 2020
  • There isn’t quite so much of that, in actuality, as usually someone is singing a lead vocal that doesn’t have to fit in with the background parts.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But, as that title suggests, the artist means to convey mood as well as actuality.
    Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
  • In actuality, the first of the heteronyms to debut was one Chevalier de Pas, a French knight in whose name Pessoa wrote letters to himself at the age of five or six.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That date, purportedly to go see a movie in the next town, was in actuality a trip to the boondocks with a bottle of Everclear.
    Shirley Coté, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But in actuality, there’s no record that Steve ever kept in touch with Letourneau.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2023

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