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How to use actuality in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Actuality means the state of existing; existence. Example: “The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality.”

Examples of actuality by meaning

nounAn instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.

  • The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

nounLive reporting on current affairs.

  • A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all.1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22
  • When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164

nounA short early motion picture.

  • By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection.1999, “The Variety Stage collection”, in Selected Materials from the Library of Congress

More sentences with actuality

  • In actuality, I could have been back home in Henry Afrika's in Scunny.2016, Richard Nuttall, "Oi, watch it Treacle"- The Life and Hard Times of Terry Knacker, page 108. From the entry Scunny
  • But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?2009, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 26. From the entry mentor
  • In actuality, many other changes occurred along the way.2026 February 23, Carl Zimmer, “The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One. Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate…. From the entry cyclops
  • In actuality, they are the victims of Arabization since their language is used only marginally in official media.2011, David Porter, “[French Anarchist Positions] Organisation Communiste Libertaire (OCL)”, in Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and…. From the entry arabophone
  • In actuality, it would be terminally velocitized against its surface.2009, Martin O. Cook, David D. Miller, Einstein Continued...: The Missing Model of Motion, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry velocitize
  • But, in actuality the PMS women didn't act like Frank and Marie's family or like the graduate students I had known.1997, Laurel Richardson, Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life, page 81. From the entry PMSer
  • The best way to demonstrate the possibility of something is to show its actuality, for actuality implies possibility.1985, J[itendra] N[ath] Mohanty, “Introductory Essay: On the Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy”, in J. N. Mohanty, editor, The…. From the entry transcendental
  • “‘Nuremberg defense’, universally pleaded in war crimes trials,” is in actuality the Nuremberg nondefense, universally rejected in war crimes trials.1970 September, R. R. Baxter, “‘Nuremberg Defense’ Beclouded [letter]”, in Richard B. Allen, editor, ABA Journal: The Lawyer’s Magazine…. From the entry Nuremberg defense
  • Although (MR) is discussed here as simply (CP ), in actuality (MR) is a biconditional of which one part is (CP ).2008 January 3, Anand Vaidya, “Modal Rationalism and Modal Monism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI. From the entry biconditional
  • In actuality, however, in many cases the use of a given script denotes less the content of a given text than its social use.2007, Peter Koret, “Past, Present and Future in Buddhist Prophetic Literature of the Lao”, in Ian Harris, editor, Buddhism, Power and…. From the entry Tham
  • To simplify the discussion, I will assume that the lexeme has no subsenses, subsubsenses, etc.—although this is seldom the case in actuality.1986, International Federation of Translators, Babel, page 44. From the entry subsubsense
  • For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it.1963, G. A. Rauche, The philosophy of actuality, page 89. From the entry understep
  • I scrambled dizzily to my feet, my mind areel at being so suddenly transported from a dream-world of terror to an actuality scarcely less frightening.1954, Walter Karig, Don't Tread on Me, page 109. From the entry areel
  • People consider that this is Brother Lee’s training, but in actuality I let others do many small things in any way they can; any way is right.1999, Witness Lee, “Be Right in Following Others”, in A Word of Love to the Co-workers, Elders, Lovers, and Seekers of the Lord, Anaheim…. From the entry any way
  • Analogical unity, then, is at once the actuality and the proper excellence (areté) of the parts of a mixtural whole, whether political, physical, or even dramatic (Met.1960, Harald A. T. Reiche, Empedocles' Mixture, Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotle’s Connate Pneuma, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, page 27. From the entry mixtural
  • There is, however, little evidence that agonizers over Jewish living are thinking about such specific psychosomatic actualities as compose the living of Jewish groups and individuals.1952, Judaism, volume 1, page 28. From the entry agonizer
  • THE sailors’ inn of popular fancy is—as fanciful things have, fortunately perhaps, so often a way of being—very far removed from the sailors’ inn of sober actuality.1925, C[icely] Fox Smith, “Sailos’ Inns”, in Ship Alley: More Sailor Town Days, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company…. From the entry nauticalness
  • Then picture and sound move to the second chain (B-reel) to show actuality, the actuality picture sometimes being bridged at some points by the sound of narration on the A-reel.1969, Maury Green, Television News: Anatomy and Process, page 135. From the entry B-reel

Meaning of actuality

  1. noun The state of existing; existence.
  2. noun An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.
  3. noun Live reporting on current affairs.

Full definition of actuality

Questions about actuality in a sentence

How do you use actuality in a sentence?
Actuality is used as a noun. For example: “The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality.”
What is a short sentence with actuality?
“In actuality, many other changes occurred along the way.”
What does actuality mean?
Actuality means the state of existing; existence.

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