How to Use actually in a Sentence

actually

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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
• There’s actually no self at the end of the day.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026
• Lots of times, old trees are actually small trees in very hard to get to places.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
• Some of them actually went home — like, far away.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
• That's on the top of my list, actually.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• There’s not enough time to actually be lazy!
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• And do any of them actually breathe?
  — Adam Trenkamp, Outside, 11 Jan. 2026
• These guys cannot actually hurt you.
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
• To able to actually see these adult actors now back in these roles?
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
• They are also set to be the rare one-offs that will actually go up for grabs.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 June 2026
• There is actually a lot of preschool that is watched in the adults section.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2023
• So, what types of debts can actually be used to freeze your bank account?
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
• But my problem with the rings comes with how they’re actually used in the game.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 June 2023
• For decades, no one actually saw a drop fall in person.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
• Get clear on what this actually requires from you this week.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026
• So there must be some wild cats who actually love water.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2026
• The bathroom tub – which was a vinyl tub – was actually cut open.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• This may quench what people actually seek from an evening drink.
  — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
• By the time the match actually starts, most players just can’t wait to get on to the court.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
• Trump is actually so old, he’s not confused at all.
  — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2026
• So our laser scanner is actually right up here.
  — Adam Trenkamp, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
• How did this actually come about?
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• The female actually knocks him down to the ground.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026
• And the sun goes into the windows and actually heats up the house for free.
  — Jeff Brady, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
• So this is actually my first film in this genre as a director.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
• The long sequence at the bus station was actually shot all in one day.
  — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
• The question is how many of those solar and wind farms will actually get built.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• This is actually a shock to the system.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
• Second, there is more cool stuff to be found that can actually be used by the player.
  — Billy Studholme, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023