How To Use Actually In A Sentence

  • You do an estimate, and then it might cost a little bit more when you actually do the job.
  • A little bit overcast is actually a lot better than a sunny sky for us out there," Miller said. NHL players excited to go outdoors in Buffalo's chill
  • Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Failing to detain him could actually amount to abuse. The Sun
  • One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
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  • Actually it's we that owe you a lot.
  • In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
  • Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
  • It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility. Barack Obama Elected President of the United States | One Year Later...What's Changed?
  • They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
  • The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
  • The score may actually have been 32-0, but it seems the scoreboard operator could not keep up.
  • To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
  • Oh, and most of the scathe in my post was fairly mild. chouinard and I tend to substitute perjoratives for ... everything, actually. Book Reviewer Backlash
  • My job was often actually throwing the dart out of sight, since they were hopeless at aiming. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
  • For a start, when you drive through the gate, instead of just driving through just a field of grass, you actually drive through copses of trees and little forests.
  • Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno. Microsoft Soap - Set Up
  • The virus can actually destroy those white blood cells, leaving the body wide open to attack from other infections.
  • Now, I can't help but wonder if these people have a quick look-see, utter ‘boring’ and move on, or whether they're actually reading anything I bother to blather on about in here.
  • Silanes and siloxanes are actually just two variations on the same chemical theme.
  • Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
  • The inner reef, where we do walk, is actually composed of coralline algae, calcium-rich plants that form rock-hard ledges.
  • In the research the hand was linked to the amputee's arm only by wire and actually lay on a nearby surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • This seemingly innocuous phrase was actually a veiled threat. THE GUARDSMEN
  • I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
  • There is actually a dishonesty, really, about that slogan that says to keep it in the laboratory and it will be OK.
  • When you see this poor guy being followed everywhere he goes by hordes of people, it's actually terribly sad.
  • The movie had won critical acclaim and is actually one of the few hits that Bollywood turned out this year so far.
  • The film features quarrymen actually employed at Dorothea Quarry at the time of filming, some of whom have been identified and their recollections of the filming noted.
  • I'm quite a kind-hearted person actually. Times, Sunday Times
  • Blue chip issues were sharply higher, but the rest of the market actually declined slightly by the end of the day.
  • I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDad’s way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback. Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
  • The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
  • Of course, daylight savings time will never go away, because modern environmentalism has become more a matter of making empty feel-good gestures than performing rational acts that actually improve something. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It Seems I Was Right About Daylight Savings Time
  • The sweet and sour tastes actually go very well together. The Sun
  • It's not clear who actually pulled the trigger.
  • A very few quilts actually contain stenciled or embroidered designs along with the pieced or appliqué work.
  • Because today's a public holiday, Sunday night was without that familiar cramp in the neck from thinking about Monday's workload, even though I actually have to work later in the arvo today.
  • So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
  • They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be. Home | Mail Online
  • An epitaph is on a gravestone, and while I am sure they would be happy to oblige, that wasn’t what they were actually throwing, I don’t think …. Think Progress » GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’
  • What seems obvious though is the complexity of the process by which the banks will actually merge. Times, Sunday Times
  • She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits. “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
  • I tried on clothes that actually fit me and felt comfortable instead of living in denial and trying on clothing that depressed me when I couldn't get the pants above my thighs.
  • There is no factually established minimal toxic level or maximally allowable safe dose for diquat. The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS
  • But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
  • Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce. GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds
  • Will Ralphie boy have a similar experience and actually convert from his corrupt “moneychanger” fake Christian mentality and embrace more liberal, compassionate Christian beliefs and behaviors? Firedoglake » Safavian Found Guilty
  • One of my dazed wits tried to tell me the odds against this actually happening.
  • And therefore (quod iterum moneo, licet nauseam paret lectori, malo decem potius verba, decies repetita licet abundare, quam unum desiderari) I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The hipster cops are sneering at the two faux surfers: 'I'm all dialed in to see what happens if the pair of rainbow donks actually hit the briny on their unwaxed legs.' Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language
  • This was slightly dampened by the fact that we actually know this guy.
  • And he's actually kind of a neo Republican, a new version of Republicans that could really redefine that party and rejuvenize it. CNN Transcript May 9, 2008
  • Actually, this particular strain of e. coli is going to be more likely to have been spread by humans, manure (even the so-called organic stuff) or animals, than water. Spinach
  • As an added bonus the DVD actually has enough extra content that it can be considered a special edition.
  • Talia's room, when we reach it and I actually take the time to observe it, is decorated in varying shades of pastel blue, more or less coordinating the curtains and the bed sheets.
  • Actually the great bit about the DVD compendium isn't the re-watching; it's watching six episodes back to back in little more than two hours.
  • In all honesty, the only thing I was actually doing right was my schoolwork.
  • It's a world where dinosaurs are your next door neighbours, and where some of the most famous feuds in history where actually territorial disputes between apatosaurs bearing grudges... Susanna Clarke in the NY Times
  • Actually, the color of white gold is light grey but it is coated with a layer of rhodium.
  • A townswoman actually comes to the castle in despair, demanding her child; Dracula sets a pack of wolves on her.
  • Amazingly, as personal computer technology was filtering into the Weltanschauung, their vision was actually filtering into the mainstream.
  • While we are at it we should skip most of the stuff comingout of Turtle Bay — actually maybe we ought to just skip Turtle Bay altogether. The Volokh Conspiracy » United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:
  • This conundrum poses two questions: First: does collective stupidity actually have a bottom limit or is it some kind of great cosmic suckhole from which reason and common sense simply cannot escape? The End-of-the-World Survival Kit
  • It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin 
  • Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
  • In fact, the history of the Church demonstrates that praxis is not only inseparable from, but actually flows out of didache or teaching. Archive 2008-07-13
  • But it actually is ushering in a new rationale for the media's scandal mongering.
  • Chopping up the chocolate is actually one of the most important things you need to do for this recipe before mixing them into the batter. Baking Bites » Print » Chocolate Chip Angel Food Cupcakes
  • Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
  • Now, whether the presentative faculty of the soul be identical with, or different from, the faculty of sense-perception, in either case the illusion does not occur without our actually seeing or [otherwise] perceiving something. On Dreams
  • Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
  • It's actually a Hindu religious symbol meaning `let good prevail. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 8: THE FIVE PATHS
  • Actually, they call it "pranked," and you probably think I'm talking about famous Canadian-born SNL producer Lorne Michaels, but no, no, no ... or should I say "non, non, non? The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
  • An extension of this may occur when the victim actually, becomes a supporter or advocate of her captor.
  • When I started doing this, I thought, easy-peasy, but it's actually quite difficult.
  • I remember spending as much time reading the contents of the books in Deus Ex and Fable, and reading the pads in Doom 3, as I ever spent actually trying to beat combatants. Some Thoughts, Part Seven – Games « The Graveyard
  • The single engine, semi-displacement hull form with deep forefoot and a long deep keel actually more closely resembles Down East-style workboats and cruisers.
  • It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
  • Britain has many admirers around the world, but who actually owns our green and pleasant land? The Sun
  • It took a while to get to know each other well enough to actually confide in one another.
  • Whatever Paul is or is not, he is an only an approvement when one considers Lieberman, who is actually and increduously still a part of the US Government. Paul Casts a Larger Shadow (Convention) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Photo she sent us quite inaccurate -- she actually looks 12 not 14 & is tiny like a doll. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
  • I've had some luck getting laid with AdultFriendFinder (it sounds so much sketchier than it actually is, I promise), but if that's not what you're looking for, then stay away. Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
  • It is sometimes too much but sometimes you actually want it to ring. The Sun
  • Now it looks like some of these banks may have been technically insolvent for quite some time before they actually collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The keel is a centreboard but not weighted; the ballast is in the hull itself (which sounds inefficient but actually works surprisingly well).
  • Shalene's been watching me ... and my dancing is actually watchable! Archive 2006-10-01
  • I often say gorillas are like that: big and look very fierce and very strong but actually are quite gentle and sensitive. Times, Sunday Times
  • Your first book was actually a theological exploration of the meaning of motherhood.
  • Sodium hydroxide is a caustic type of chemical that actually softens hair fibers.
  • It will be closer to L.A. without actually being there, and let's face it, the hotel room gouging is really out of hand. San Diego Convention Center Plans $753 million Expansion in Bid to Keep Comic-Con | /Film
  • Surprisingly, studies are showing that they can actually help you to shed pounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Maybe she's confused by your claim because she knows what the word trite actually means. Okay. I'm up for it tonight. I'm live-blogging Hillary Night at the Democratic Convention.
  • In either case, the story of queenly beauty would not be complete without the recognition that royal women have traditionally had far more chances than the average woman of actually being beautiful.
  • Steel actually work-hardens over time, so in theory, steel shafts get slightly stiffer the more they're used.
  • My vampires are actually ugly and do the freakiest thing: they eat people. Vampire Fashion Week!
  • They were actually hemmed in by cattle grids at each end of the village, he pointed out - and there were disinfectant mats at each entrance to prevent the spread of infection.
  • On Seventh Avenue, slack-jawed visitors scrambled for digital cameras, and taxicabs actually slowed down for something other than a fare.
  • Obviously, one way to do it is to actually make them owners, for example, with an employee stock ownership plan.
  • So we've actually put in place a helpline, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for people to call, where they'll get professional assistance from people who are trained counsellors.
  • More critical are analogous words that have acquired easily mistakable senses, such as eventually/eventuellement (‘possibly’), actually/actuellement (‘currently’), or to attend/attendre (‘to wait’). French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News
  • Instead, we get the "kerplunk" scene we knew we were getting from the end of last issue, Luthor revealing that he's actually kind of a bastard after all, members of Infinity II declaring twice in two pages that it sure is a good thing they still have their powers, and a lost-in-space scene that once again fails to advance that plot. Week 35: That Most Dangerous of Animals
  • But many Nashville residents are unconvinced, leaving government and civic leaders worried that the once-done Oilers deal actually could collapse.
  • It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
  • Frenetic attempts to distract and comfort him may actually overstimulate him and increase his levels of arousal. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter.
  • They are not the happy, well adjusted children that we all imagine we can raise until we actually have the little hellions.
  • But she's not actually ugly; she's just pert and smart-mouthed and has a sexy voice, completely according with that rom-com genre convention of the comic sidekick to the heroine.
  • Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister
  • The F-22's "supercruise," that is, its ability to cruise supersonically, is unusably short in duration due to inadequate onboard fuel capacity -- so short that current Air Force training missions to exercise supercruising combat actually schedule one tanker refueling just before going supersonic and one more refueling before going home subsonically. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Interesting, also, that some of the hits for 'intoleration' are people actually querying whether the word exists. On tolerating
  • It is perhaps correct to say that Moses actually was descended from Levi, and that the later significance of the name Levite is to be explained by reference to him. Prolegomena
  • Well to me, being on stage is the closest thing to actually making love, you know.
  • By ‘real’ stress I mean when the bank heavies are actually knocking on your door and it's pay up time on the arrears on the house payments.
  • The people who actually believe the likes of a Palin could do this are the same people who might let their children hand-feed peanuts to a bear. tc campbell CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as president
  • The quality of the brickwork is the best that I have ever seen, and not a single brick was disturbed beyond those actually removed. Autobiography
  • But until a claim was actually made, no loss or damage was sustained by the fund. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's actually what I call a sucking sound of people coming into the country and the insurgents who have political and religious motivations. CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2004
  • (It wasn't until I was parked at the second new lek, which is actually the first new lek, that I remember one if the reasons I bought this Olympus camera is because it can use regular alkaline batteries. Grouse Diary Entry
  • He laughs as he says it, but he actually does have the air of a kid who's gotten away with something.
  • It turns out that silver tantrums are actually a key stage of the holiday season. Times, Sunday Times
  • We were actually standing on opposite sides of the sign, doh!
  • Incident energy: Total arc energy, both radiant and convective, that is actually received per unit area, in calories per square centimeter. CSE - Top Articles
  • In all such eases, odd as it may sound, our judgment may actually be said to retroact and to enrich the past. Meaning of Truth
  • Also, with chemical reactions as your energy source, you can't really use hydrogen as your exhaust gas, because it isn�t the product gas of the energetic reactions you'd like to use, always assuming that you don't actually have tanks of monoatomic hydrogen lying around. Faster
  • In addition, if the scar tissue forms in and around the fingerlike ends of your tube called the fimbria, the tubes may actually seal shut, in which case all chances for natural conception are lost. Getting Pregnant
  • April 23rd, 2010 at 3:41 pm actually the liberals follow a slightly different version bubkis the PRESUMPTION of an end justifies the means Obama and Niebuhr
  • It was obviously faux-meat that was actually called "seitan" (seriously pronounced "Satan," as in the prince of darkness). Daily Campus
  • The Court of Appeals held that Hallberg was judicially estopped from indemnity from Portland because his claim was factually inconsistent with claims he made defending the previous suit on which he had prevailed. One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • I was actually born in New Zealand, but I've lived in England for so long that it feels like home now.
  • Meanwhile, all of Africa and large parts of Asia would lie dark and unlit as if during a wartime bombing raid, a fate that one or two places down there would actually be enduring.
  • I don't think I ever had had beef stew with such pasta, even though although they serve stew with egg pasta like tagliatelle, but it was not soupy at all, and tasted actually good.
  • As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task. Peggy
  • It's impossible to stay fully hydrated while actually climbing, so rehydrating at the end of the day or during breaks between hard effort is essential.
  • Researchers then asked the injured parties how strongly they'd actually feel about such infractions.
  • But you can't really begin to fathom it until you're actually there. Times, Sunday Times
  • So the only way that they could really construct what we call a trench would be actually what I call a fortification meaning they would have to build up. A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
  • All I can ask is, what has happened to all that money and what has actually improved?
  • But ideological arguments, navel-gazing and the odd bout of nat-bashing aside, how will Labour members actually vote? Archive 2009-09-01
  • My position on euthanasia is actually derived from the ancient Greek one; that is, I am generally in favour of allowing it, as long as the person being euthanized is in perfectly sound mental condition, not non compos mentis, and has positively re-affirmed his decision at least three times over the period of at least a suspended period of time to allow for reconsideration (say 15 or 30 days). Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion
  • Again, this doesn't actually distinguish fantasy from any other (Romantic and excusatory) commercial genre, but that's not the point here. The Aesthetics of Fat
  • Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts'). Bassani's Father
  • China and beyond in bands of apitherapists because in the rest of the world, apitherapy is actually an accepted reality. WN.com - Articles related to Probiotic Use In Mothers Limits Eczema In Their Babies
  • ‘These people are actually paid and trained semi-professional evidence gatherers, and they are not police officers,’ he said.
  • Neither the preliminary interview nor the consultation seemed to define what patients actually worried about.
  • The insurance cost of a Mini is actually pretty reasonable. $1.99 « BuzzMachine
  • I am pretty sure 95\% of the commenters on this site have never even talked to a girl, which is why a bullfrog is their fantasy date - they never actually have to talk to him or let him see how socially inept they all are. Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
  • I have actually heard one of the co-leaders of the Greens say that we should not be allowed to drive to the corner dairy - we should be forced to walk.
  • Actually Christmas Day is not the day on which Jesus Christ was born.
  • It's conventional wisdom that many people seeing an intriguing headline share the link with friends before or even instead of actually reading the attached article.
  • Taskbar is still annoying, everything looks worse than vista, my soundcard still doesn't work (probably creative's fault, but still, it's flawless in vista and 'Buntu), and it actually takes longer to boot than vista for me (or does it need to' mature 'like Vista does?). Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features | Lifehacker Australia
  • My paternal grandfather actually helped build the old part and then after it was built, got a job weaving and he was here all his life.
  • If it did, I would be justified in dismissing arguments against free trade on the grounds that many who make such arguments are at risk of losing their jobs or have actually lost their jobs. Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • That craziest part about it was that for a moment after she'd said it, he had actually contemplated madness and mayhem.
  • They are now convinced that the pure jet transport can not only be favourably compared with the latest conventional reciprocating and propjet types, but actually make them look almost obsolete. The Aircraft Industry in Canada and the Future Development of Jet Engines
  • My current processor is a 2 ghz Pentium M in a laptop, so I'm not sure at all what multiple cores actually get done in the real world, and am having trouble finding such info. posted on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9: 05 pm coelomate wrote: Say I have two monitors (19x12 and 16x10) up and rocking, and decide to have an instant messaging program, iTunes, a spread sheet, a word document, and firefox all running. The Tech Report: News
  • I actually bred a labradoodle for myself, then I decided to make it a hobby.
  • My research has largely been in the chemistry of how the particular components of chondrites, very primitive meteorites, actually formed in the solar nebula.
  • Before you fork out all your cash for a stonking place in the country, try renting a big house first to see if you actually like it
  • We came back to mine for a while and mum didn't mind that she was here. she was actually really nice and asked her about her exams and things, it was good. .mum even invited her to stay for dinner!!! but she had to go home, her own parents were expecting her home .... i missed her as oon as she left. Fragile-liar Diary Entry
  • I don't think it actually bwcomes a "litigable" issue until the house and senatge conference report is being debated in the senate, and someone moves for cloture with a claim that a 51 vote "yea" will do the job because the issue under debate is subject to the "reconciliation of house and senate differences over an item of budgetary impact". Wheeling In The Cots: A Winter Snow Emergency--And An Absentee Lieberman--Is Complicating Democrats' Health Care Push
  • The moderator can then select the questions to be asked and call on the individuals who submitted them to actually pose the questions to the candidates.
  • You need someone in charge with common sense, but also with the organizational wherewithal to actually get something done. Brett King: #Winning at Social Media
  • Actually, five minutes into ‘Die Hard’ he caved and let me watch my movie.
  • For Hare, however, any apparent case of akrasia must in fact be one in which the agent is actually unable to do Weakness of Will
  • She's really clingy and she was actually pressuring me.
  • Here is a guy who seemed like Prince Charming, but a number of women found out that Mr. Right was actually Mr. Very, Very, Very Wrong. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2007
  • While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
  • In a way, it was a more momentous event than actually hearingthe novel hadbeen accepted, becauseit was concrete, fixed in paper. 2009 February « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
  • The unit of measurement is actually millimeters of mercury, and that figure of 120 just means the pressure is high enough to hold up a column of mercury 120 mm high.
  • This policy actually has a lot of logic to it, so we should perhaps give them credit for their good sense, if not their duplicitousness.
  • A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
  • In accordance with Islamic law, the prophet will not actually be depicted on screen.
  • But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
  • He actually foresees a lengthy period in which the United States and China are likely to have rather cooperative relations.
  • When the troops actually got into this situation and found, you know, these hills denuded by naval shellfire and things like this, basically only then did they actually discover what the true nature of the terrain was.
  • Because actually your intention includes whatever you aim at achieving.
  • Since it turned out I spent more time procrastinating instead of actually doing anything, I decided to finally finish my Bachelor of Arts degree.
  • There are lots of gloves with bright colors, or that are actually made to go with certain outfits and brands. Gloves Leather | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
  • Oh, and there will be beer, too - a kegger, actually - if the promise of skimpy costumes is not enough of a draw.
  • Actually, "splog" or "slog" are two common shorthands for "Spam Blogs"; as people linked to you using "slog", Google assumed is was to point at a wrong doer... Spam blog - SLOG
  • Much as I would love to be wrong I fear there is as much chance of this happening as there was of the Soviet hack-writer Sholokhov giving his Nobel Prize for Literature to some more deserving writer - one who had not only suffered in the Soviet gulag but whose works were actually worth reading. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • She’s tired of seeing what she calls my boar’s nest at my end of the table festooned with stacked books, medical articles, and newspapers, so she’s making me actually, she asked me very nicely go through them – which is my plan this weekend – and get rid of them. Bougainvillea in bloom | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • Also Randy Alcorn, a well-known pro-life apologist and Protestant pastor, published a booklet in 1998 in which he gave the reasons for why the pill is an abortifacient and he has actually counselled couples in his ministry against using the pill for that reason. ProWomanProLife » A remarkably honest abortionist
  • There should be a price paid, but it should not rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
  • She looked less ferocious and was actually smiling brightly at us.
  • Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
  • This coin is actually rarer than its gold counterpart. Coin Dealer Julian Leidman Victim of Vehicle Burglary. Reward Grows to $156,000 : Coin Collecting News
  • Actually, the prevailing wisdom that iambic pentameter is somehow ideal for relating the rhythms of English speech seems deeply flawed to me. Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • These were such an expensive indulgence for me at the time (balata balls had great feel but cut easily) that I never actually used them. Balls in the Basement
  • Most of what I write is actually just cut and paste stuff from official documents, but I seem to get away with it.
  • I was actually tempted to convince him to come back to the band.
  • And it is that the administration says it will work with Congress to allow bankruptcy judges to remodify loans, to actually change of the value of a loan if you have a mortgage that is much bigger than the value of your house. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2009
  • Yet such criticisms are often made with little concern for what women actually feel. Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
  • We actually really want to help each other. Times, Sunday Times

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