| 单词 | actual |
| 例句 | Actually Mrs. Clarke was well able to remember most of the actual names, but once the information entered Penelope’s head it dissolved into gibberish. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She was never separated from the actual earth and personified. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What began as a tense standoff between the two superpowers now threatened to spiral into an actual nuclear conflict. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “No. I mean it’s an actual Dumpster fire.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He reached into his tool belt and pulled out the actual vial of physician’s cure - not the trick-of-the-Mist version he’d handed to Piper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I scoped across the water and remembered again that we lived on an actual island. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I had resolved to leave out a few details; I would seek their counsel about the idea of having talks with the government without mentioning that an actual committee had been formed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Below its surface, Archaide housed thousands of classic video arcades, each one a loving re-creation of an actual arcade that had once existed somewhere in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z While I made up that whole firebomb story, there was definitely an actual fire inside of it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Though they were intended to evoke such rustic dances, they were meant to be played and listened to, not as accompaniment for actual dancing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A “good” card is one with actual stolen numbers printed on it instead of fake ones. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His size and strength—and I suppose that temper—meant no one tried actual physical bullying, but from what I remember, for a couple of months at least, these incidents kept coming. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A handful of us are moved into an additional class that gives me hope I may be a contender for the actual war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z After about twenty minutes, I delivered him to the senior partner who’d be his actual supervisor for the summer and went back to my desk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No longer did they try to fit themselves, like paper-doll figures, behind trappings so foreign to their actual lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, my dad has a Stone Age stereo system in the basement with an actual turntable, so I was playing along with at least one whole Latin record each night. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it’s not actual music. She means like—we’re here to be here. To live. That’s why you lived, Bridge. You lived to live. Just like everyone else.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Several letter writers complained that Orson Welles and his cohorts intentionally misled the public by naming actual towns, roads, and government agencies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z So that Sunday, I bade farewell to my grandma and got into the huge cruise ship that is Grampa’s car for the ride back to my actual life. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I’m going to be the actual odd man out who gets left out and forgotten.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I haven't sung at all since the day of liberation, but actual singing? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Behind the actual stars, there’s that light dusting the sky. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Not a nice setup in somebody’s shed, but an actual, professional studio. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Using linkage analysis, geneticists could even trace an actual configuration of genes that evolved to make the progeny infertile. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My hands are shaking, not a tremor, but actual shaking, like an earthquake that only I feel. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On account of the heat, there are still a few actual bathers on the beach, but I am content to sit in shorts and T-shirt and watch the ocean pummel the sand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a dream, she was reminded, but the words had little meaning when the knots of the hand-tied rug under her imaginary feet were more vivid than the smooth silk pillow beneath her actual cheek. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He smiled, a brief flash, and Shadow wondered if there had been real humor in that smile, actual pleasure. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Before the actual cops come and start asking questions.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z You’d think that would add up to two whole actual jobs, but it didn’t seem to. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the most basic way that music is organized is by arranging the actual sound waves themselves so that the sounds are interesting and pleasant and go well together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In barely a decade, the War on Drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet there was something besides scorn in those eyes of hers, something surely of positive dislike, or actual malice? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The look made Thomas think it was more from the memory, not any actual physical pain he still felt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I glance at the door, more from paranoia than an actual concern that someone is listening in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Instead of getting random answers correct, her students would show real improvement on the easier types of questions they had previously missed, an indication of actual learning. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The actual number is slightly contentious because the heavy, synthesized elements exist for only millionths of seconds and chemists sometimes argue over whether they have really been detected or not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When DDT powder was applied to a group of Korean soldiers the extraordinary result was an actual increase in the infestation of lice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then I added up the ages, actual or approximate, of all present. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He ducks into the counselor suite near the door and emerges with a record, an actual old-school vinyl record. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It was an actual place—a “madhouse” where the insane were imprisoned in unthinkable conditions. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The puzzles and riddles were fun, and she devoured the books, but the actual seeking was what brought her back to this game again and again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But Wallace has significant records which point to something more sinister — the actual destruction of the birds’ capacity to reproduce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Only the actual construction of a uranium separation plant was be held in abeyance without a further order from the White House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Only his voice. But that’s ours for the taking. We didn’t even have to do any special editing. He said that actual line in your first Games.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z How was the set of genetic instructions, the genotype, translated into the actual physical manifestations, the phenotype, of an organism? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dimple felt an actual lump in her throat. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “No, just,” Nick says, “like actual weird dreams. Like I dreamed I was in the bathroom putting on my contacts, and I couldn’t figure out which lens went in which eye.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z There have been no actual conversations about my art. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A work of fiction, it purported to be the actual master plan by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s not a huge dovecote for actual doves, but it’s big and it has four floors for four different families and this cool conical roof covered in little handmade roof tiles. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z As usual, there was a discrepancy between the amount of chocolates reported as sold and the actual money received. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For what it's worth, I think it would be incredibly depressing if your actual proudest moment happened in middle school, You can't imagine how much I hated middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But in those first few days in Portland the anxieties of my actual social class take over. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think there’s an actual word for it. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z So I didn’t know my actual birthdate until I was around twenty years old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z As a matter of absolute fact, the Count was bringing nothing; it was the albino who was doing the actual work, making trip after trip with thing after thing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “This might even land you an actual date with Tiffany.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He knew Benji had made some charges to party places, which could have been for anything—for the wedding, for their lunch period, for an actual party. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Fewer than 400 American soldiers had been killed in the actual fighting on the island, while over 2,000 died of yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We walk in silence until we get to the actual river. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The actual impact of a small comet or asteroid with the Moon might make a momentary explosion sufficiently bright to be visible from the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a computer screen and numbers and stocks and things...but not the actual money.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z People assumed that Manet had intended to represent an actual event. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Hazel wondered if actual bodies were buried behind them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In fact, fifty years to life was the actual sentence given to Leandro Andrade for stealing videotapes, a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why would they want a yearbook that showed actual student life? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z And more as a consequence of the excited state in which this idea put Gregor than as a result of an actual decision, he swung himself with all his might out of the bed. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Erica’s face is so red with rage, I worry she’s going to morph into an actual firebird. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Though its only window had been bricked in years before, one wall still boasted a hearth big enough to hold a kettle, and there was an actual privy built into a comer nook. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was scanning the ice cream, looking for the perfect kind—one with chunks of real, actual strawberries—when another familiar face appeared, reflected in the glass. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They were mock-ups of the actual aeroplane, with wingspans of up to five feet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The jaunty patterns of popular dances were put together into contrasting groups of three to provide variation - slow-fast-slow or fast-slow-fast - even when the consorts were not accompanying actual dancing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Because the man had made actual death threats against me and my family—threats that fell under the rubric of hate crimes—the FBI was quickly contacted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They are not locked into their usual the-world-is-beneath-me sneer, but hang on his face like melting cheese, creating the illusion that he is an actual human being and a sad one, at that. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Kondrachev was the only Soviet official in London who knew Blake's actual identity or his role in British intelligence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He acts the same with everybody, so that you end up feeling like an actual person around him. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He thought it prudent to omit the actual words. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Maybe there was an actual tree lurking in the midst? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The actual boiling hadn’t begun yet, but it was the sound of a starting, and it was coming from the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But the actual beach, the one he and the corporals gazed on now, was no more than a variation on all that had gone before: there was a rout, and this was its terminus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Something moved in her peripheral view, and Emily turned to see an actual man standing there, scanning the titles on the bookcase alongside the entrance. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The ceilings are really high and beautiful with tons of natural light, and I see actual trees and lush greenery in the terminal right next to luxury-brand cosmetic stores. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Then she realized they had actual horns jutting from their shaggy hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I remember his asking if I had had any heroes growing up, figures actual or imagined that I cherished, admired. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his strange badgering for some kind of juicy memory that finally produced my first actual result. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She accepted it with fulsome thanks; it was lovely to behold, and all that burnished copper would flash prettily in the sun, though if actual battle threatened, she would sooner be clad in steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Eating it, I had to remind myself that the burger came from an actual cow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Could the model maid be an actual maid and the model home someone’s actual dwelling? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She had tried Googling, but everything online was for grown women, actual moms. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I was not there, so I don’t know, but if indeed he did the actual pushing, it was, as far as I’m concerned, a very impulsive thing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Additionally, the pressurized space helmets would cause headsets to jerk forward and cover their eyes during an actual splashdown, so they had to practice for this, as well. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Someone named Woody had been her actual father, and Michael’s father, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Which I’m not sure is an actual thing, since I’m going to be the only assistant there. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It took ten minutes for him to re-create the solution he’d figured out with Mr. Keeney, this time factoring in the actual spacing between the two rock pillars which had been missing until now. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of their ranks was an actual war elephant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Are you done? I do have some actual work to do.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As the sheer sides of the Cleft closed about him, before he reached the actual summit, before he looked at last on the path descending into the Nameless Land, he turned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I cringe inside, wondering if it sounded like I meant the circumstances were more upsetting to people than Tariq's actual death. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Saidy suggested that there was an actual plot to keep Fischer from becoming World Champion, and this involved the wiretapping of his parents’ phone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if this is the way actual French people say it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He looked more like a prune than an actual prune did—sweeter and more wrinkly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But the actual touch, the realized touch ... it was all wrong. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z My actual job was to choose the music for the film. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He would not receive actual decrypts, and Enigma itself would never be mentioned. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His mother said, “Well, I’m not sure if it’s an actual law but—” “Oh yes, it is,” his father cut in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You already have everything. You have friends and two parents and a house, and in a few weeks, you might be an actual millionaire.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z In the center of the space, an actual fountain gushed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z ‘No, I mean it’s a made-up myth. Not, like, an actual true myth.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When I can see the bodies, the actual bodies, when I can guess from the sizes and shapes that none of them is Luke, I can believe also that he is still alive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This subterfuge would be assisted by the fact of his staying at Corbin castle, instead of at the actual place of the tournament. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The White River is beautiful in the abstract—blue herons and geese and deer and all that stuff—but the actual water itself smells like human sewage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The trick in killing Secretary of State Seward, Booth reminds Powell, isn’t the actual murder. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The idea was still nascent and an actual decision many months away, but clearly it was taking hold in Barack’s mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z ‘What the actual Hades? A little warning next time.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But I was never clear how actual her publishing plans were. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Since the house is so old, there’s no actual master bedroom upstairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “So the actual spot could be anywhere from the ceiling to the floor.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I just hate that thing where people assume a girl who’s attracted to girls is attracted to all girls. I want an actual emotional connection, you know? Romance. Attachment. Love.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z At least that sounded like actual, understandable English! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The woman recognized my father—not the actual man, whom she had never met, but the form of the man: a boy returning home. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We rate our favorite Indian foods and joke that how the first thing we both want when we fly back from India is an actual Big Mac. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The three of us walk along the beige tiles, sprinklings of actual sand around, to the tunnel. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I keep imagining what it would be like to have actual gay friends.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I fill in gaps with guesses where I don’t have actual recall. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I moved into what had been my parents’ room, they rotated into what had been the kids’ room, and for the first time my brother and I had actual space for ourselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And we live by the lies we believe—at least until the actual reality becomes overwhelming. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Surely saliva from a snake’s actual mouth had to count for more than a rock, right? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It’s big enough to be a ballroom, with gleaming floors and rows of numbered PO boxes and actual sculptures, like a museum. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But it turns out that the actual reasons behind the more rapid development of Eurasian societies were not at all the straightforward ones that our imaginary archaeologist of 11,000 B.C. guessed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “They should have paid you with actual money for helping them,” said Pong, guessing at his friend’s thoughts. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He repeated his story, harshly recapitulant, seeming to get an actual pleasure out of his outrage and impotence. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I start to manipulate it, but it’s hard because I’ve never made this actual knot myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The glow from an actual, normal conversation with Mom keeps me from thinking that the talent show might kill me, until about second period. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Memories take on life, a valid life, that is more vital, more real than the actual event. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I know that’s not an actual word, but it’s a real sound. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z My mother kept the actual money hidden from my father as well. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And, yes, I will be driving an actual car. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The whole point of a refugee camp is that there are actual people trying to kill you. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She wasn’t in actual danger as long as the troop kept to the rocks, so she settled down to watch their antics. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By one a.m., he was ready to transfer the data from his pencil sketch map to the actual cave floor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Which is saying something—not just because who knew guffawing was an actual thing people did, but because you know Ms. Albright has seen this thing a thousand times already. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Sometimes I find talking much more exhausting than actual work. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I told her what I'm really thinking, without worrying about how I should say it, without distorting my actual feelings to avoid making her angry. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She had never seen her father in actual combat before. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but we’ll only have to go once—for the actual thing,” I reason. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They would reveal their actual preferences later, in confidential e-mails to the people they wanted to date. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She’s got these Disney eyes and dark brown skin and wavy dark hair and actual cheekbones. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z As I walked over to him, I noticed he was wearing actual pajamas—Captain America ones—even though he was thirteen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I shake my head, a smile slipping onto my lips as I put the note back down and walk over to the actual med cart. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Trust me, my mother’s a food synthesis engineer. That stuff’s not actual chicken—they grow it in a petri dish.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Some of the insects that defy chemical control are thought to be aided by a structural advantage, but there seems to be little actual proof of this. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No emotional awareness, no feeling-sense of the actual meaning of what she said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But she didn’t feel this let Reggie off the hook, because his action didn’t have theoretical consequences but actual ones. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Lydia felt actual physical revulsion at the banality of Dahlia’s problems in the great scope of things. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “My mom says they think the gym graffiti was actual vandals who don’t go to the school.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I will have to go up before the Accident Committee, but that will just be about the actual accident—as if I were one of the Moon Squadron itself, pranging my own plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The actual writing of the book began with the scene in the pool room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But although no one, apparently, is sleeping in a car, there are signs, even at the beginning, of real difficulty if not actual misery. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The shortcoming of the Schiehallion experiment was that it was not possible to get a truly accurate figure without knowing the actual density of the mountain. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Saying those words would cause me actual, physical pain.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Thomas waited patiently to get some sort of actual information from Chuck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then I started in on the actual shaving portion of the festivities. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Except when she used the few actual words in her vocabulary, like “bottle,” “mommy,” and “bite,” most people had trouble understanding what it was that Sunny was saying. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z It was strikingly obvious, and somehow too big to fit into his mind—like trying to cram the actual Cusp into his own small skull. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I told them I thought many of our problems were a result of lack of communication between the government and the ANC and that some of these could be resolved through actual talks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her goat, Lady, an animal of actual value, has unfortunately not made an appearance. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He was now beginning to feel it as an actual weight dragging him earthwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Evans and Mr. King were to enter the store and do the actual robbery. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The level of public concern about crime and drugs was only weakly correlated with actual crime rates, but highly correlated with political initiatives, campaigns, and partisan appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The actual Games don't start until ten because so many of the Capitol residents rise late. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Getting off the bus, I'd noticed that along with their book bags a lot of the girls carried actual purses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She looked better with a little mud—less like a beauty queen and more like an actual get-your-hands-dirty kind of person. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was holding those folded leaves like they were pages from his actual comics. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I always thought gangsters liked to dress in pants three times their actual waist size with white T-shirts. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But instantly there came a crash of actual thunder and a flash of lightning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Not like the actual candy, but more the little dispensers that come with the candy. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without a sound, a blazing glare so thorough and remorseless that even in the Fosters’ parlor, with curtains drawn, it seemed an actual presence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Being restricted to an orphanage had been bad enough; she couldn’t imagine being locked in a cage with who knew what kind of actual criminals. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I was struck most forcefully by the discrepancy between my old assumptions and my actual experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hers was the duty to live out a mythical life in the actual world, mine to tell about it now. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And then there were the actual lessons where they showed us horrible pictures of what smoking did to the insides of your body. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack’s heroes were usually muscular, but this one was tall and very thin and wearing an actual suit and tie, like someone you might run into downtown. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The bad thing, of course, is that there is always the possibility of actual expulsion. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Some of us have actual things to complain about. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I never had the heart to do any actual tagging. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And when it was time for the actual show, we paraded out there and people applauded. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Somewhere there was an actual arsenal, but it was closed off behind successions of sealed mesarthium doors, and anyway, Minya thought knives appropriate tools for butchery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And even though I know what he’ll say, I’m dreading the actual medical confirmation. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She was believed to be forty- seven, although she was often vague about her actual birthdate and may have been three years older. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I was a kid, I assumed that El Cucuy was a hideous monster that hid under the stairs, not an actual person. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z That, I guess, is why he is one of the few actual adults I know, as opposed to people who are just old. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was an undercurrent of terror that ran through the house, but the actual beatings themselves were not that frequent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There had been little publicity about the actual time, and because of this there was no crowd waiting, as I had feared and expected. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But best of all, better far than this, the actual living and the dreamy flesh itself. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom has a job as a waitress in a spa town, the kind of place where rich people like an actual human in an apron to serve them chocolate pie and call them “Hon.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The actual particulars of the event are unclear, obscured by the accretion of myth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Miss Baker’s and Miss Inglis’s ghosts haunted the school, along with actual busts and portraits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The psychologist Walter Mischel argues that the human mind has a kind of “reducing valve” that “creates and maintains the perception of continuity even in the face of perpetual observed changes in actual behavior.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to tell her because saying it out loud—forming the actual words of what happened—is humiliating. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He shifts our view to the actual person behind this specific mind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s just a meeting, y’all, I promise. It’s not even the actual protest. Even then...we should probably wait to overreact until we know what it is this protest will even be.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The defendants declined to testify in their own behalf, and therefore the question of whether Hickock or Smith had been the actual executioner of the Clutter family did not arise. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual city of Alpharetta covers only twenty-three square miles in the northern half of Fulton County, but many subdivisions in adjoining unincorporated areas, like Medlock Bridge, carry Alpharetta zip codes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Okay, maybe not Mitchell and Boggs—they died on an actual assignment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I am just so impressed that you use actual paint.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I’m, uh, I’m sorry I couldn’t see you on your actual birthday. Something came up.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My dreams struggled to rival the horror of my actual life. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z To our right, teens were playing volleyball—with an actual net. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It seemed like actual water, cold and cascading through her fingers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was in the living room, my feet tucked under the lip of the couch, firing through a set of fifty crunches when I heard Ma’s actual sleepy voice drift up and over the room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When I was Connor’s age, Jack had me convinced he was an actual pirate, too. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Think of our life in nature-daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lacking actual evidence of criminal activity, the officers decided to stop them based on a pretext—a traffic violation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He insisted that the iridium had been deposited by volcanic action even while conceding in a newspaper interview that he had no actual evidence of it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The short answer is that, just as there was a duel of words after the actual duel—won by Hamilton’s advocates—there was also a duel of words beforehand, which Burr won with equivalent decisiveness. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My actual moment of glory is a blank in my memory. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Bridge had once believed that state borders were something you could see, actual black lines that you could walk along if you wanted to, one foot in front of the other. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Any school that would make someone lick up their own spit—lick it up off the actual ground—must be really tough. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But it is, weirdly enough, the home of an actual Buddhist that shatters the sanctified mood. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, an actual blue whale, the largest mammal on the planet.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I don’t think an actual crime has been committed. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The photographer wanted something more lively, though, a picture of an actual capture. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jane Kitty might be more proud of you if you could score against an actual opponent,” I say. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Notable too was his willingness to engage in actual physical work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It had been a while since I had stepped foot in an actual house, and the wood and whitewashed cottages back home were nothing like this. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was strange seeing Mrs. Baylor's son not in his painting clothes but in an actual suit, and Lily acting as if she'd known him all her life. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The progressives of the Stability Research group, regardless of their actual political practices, were certainly open to accusations of subversion for their embrace of “dangerous” ideas like racial integration, civil rights, and equality for women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For a first try, we get an area of 16, quite short of the actual value of 32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Doc went on working while Henri told about it and when it was over Doc looked closely at him to see how much actual fear and how much theater was there. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brandy? Cool. Does another girl have an actual name or is she supremely unlucky?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle argued that the actual material provided by females was menstrual blood. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All the same, he shuddered, his body actually twitching spasmodically with each resonant shtok! as he learned that imagining a scene is often worse than being an actual spectator to it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Until this moment, I had never had to face the possibility of actual physical contact with a real, live rabbit. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z The actual subject is who, which is plural because it refers to authors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They backtracked and camped in the actual road and when they went on in the morning the macadam had cooled. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I feel the kind of relief that follows an actual solution. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “That way, it will happen just during the first minutes of your actual seventeenth birthday.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I end up seeing lots of spiderwebs, but thankfully no actual spiders. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Only later will I realize that the want ads are not a reliable measure of the actual jobs available at any particular time. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not arguing, Adam. You realize that with your temperature, your life is in danger? Okay? Your actual life? We need to give the antibiotics a chance to work.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And before I can give what I’m doing any actual thought, I turn to look at her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He makes me promise no actual flames until he gets home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We have actual tickets, and food in our satchel—cold meat and bread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The ground is so dark and wet that it seems very unlikely there are actual flowers under there ready to burst through in just a few more weeks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We have been spoiled by artists’ renderings into imagining a clarity of resolution that doesn’t exist in actual astronomy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You are too handsome. I prefer your actual face.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z To be clear, Sarai herself—Sarai actual—was at a distance, where she had entered the dream at a street crossing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “This time you got a actual vandalism to report,” Curly said pointedly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z How did that code become transcribed and translated into actual form and function of an organism? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I’m sorry I couldn’t write the last two nights, but now I can, lying here in an actual bed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z By including the actual names of English towns and villages, he crafted fiction that seemed disturbingly real. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I look panicked because making faces and throwing my hands around in front of a group of people sounds like an actual nightmare I've had more than once. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I want to say, “Thank you for your time, sir, but this is just an experiment, you know, not my actual life. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Every task simulated an actual situation we might have to deal with as correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today it was about whether—in the case of homicide—the corpus delicti is the knife or the dead man whose death is the actual proof of the crime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m only an amateur. It’s not my subject. I have never had anything to do with the actual construction of the language.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “So who was this wedding guy you texted me about? Any actual details?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It takes longer for the actual therapeutic effects to vanish, just as it took a longer time for them to begin. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z My sisters’ giggles are güiras, and together, it’s a party, even without actual music. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I consider them actual, physical pieces of my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They were boring, and plus, they had actual jobs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was easier, I guess, than the truth—or maybe because some small part of it felt like it was the actual truth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z First came the people with actual inherited titles, such as baron or viscount; then came the wealthy landowners, and then the prosperous businessmen. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He managed to track down a copy of the actual scientific paper and to persuade scientists at the US Atomic Energy Commission to explain to him what it meant. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With most of us, even when we are lucky enough to get our revenge, we must pay for it, sometimes in actual dollars. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a simple notion, almost rudimentary, but accomplishing this in an actual game can be quite difficult. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have any idea how much these things cost? They were way too expensive to ever make it to the actual weapons market. I can’t believe I’m holding one.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Trying to picture the actual moment filled me with a mixture of excitement and abject terror. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His lathering technique was very much out of the ordinary, although identical in spirit with his actual shaving technique. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z She knew the difference between whining and actual distress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I know that. But we’re not looking for books about dessert. We need to find actual food.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Remarkably, under current law, an actual conviction or finding of a formal violation is not necessary to trigger exclusion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The shoe and sock would go on my right leg, which had an actual artificial foot. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z By actual count, there are more words of classical than of Anglo-Saxon origin in the English vocabulary,—probably two and a half times as many of the former as of the latter. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Loads of words aren't actual words you can look up, but screws of grammar that hold the sentence together. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We start catching the actual river in brief glances off to our left side as we go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Not to mention the fact that I’m being watched by a bunch of actual musicians in an actual college band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z This was probably why people were able to empty porta potties or regulate the quality of canned cat food in factories with actual taste tests. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene sat on the floor of our bedroom with the cordless phone and the actual paper phone book. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z This more serious discussion of settlement reflected the reality that an actual trial was quickly approaching. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Because Hunt, Smith’s subordinate, had the smaller of the two vessels, the actual number was surely less. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Whispering his name, he said—his actual name—all night long—it was driving him crazy. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But these are mountain foothills, which means they are the baby hills before she gets to the real deal of actual mountain passes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She didn’t make actual contact, though, because Papá put his hand on her shoulder and held her at bay. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z As far as the actual day he flew me out of the Congo in his plane, it’s hard for me even to remember what I thought was going to happen next. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped in and was suddenly in a tropical climate at least twenty degrees warmer and considerably more humid than the actual outdoors. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But I don't even have to do an actual search. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Our teachers didn’t want to play parent or security guard, but that was his actual job. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The other thing that made me doubtful about all this had to do with the actual description given by Chrissie and Rodney: their picture of a woman working in a nice glass-fronted office. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have actual data to back that up? I wanna see some numbers.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z They came again and now the town listened for the announcement of the actual day. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual planning of the charrette began in earnest with the formation of a steering committee. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Had there been actual music, or was I hearing it in my head? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t surprise me if actual bees lived in there. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Soon, numbers and letters appear in random places around the dome, highlighting the areas where the code is generating bits of virtual reality over the actual scene. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z While the rich may have always set the standards, Schor said, the actual social competition used to be played out largely at the neighborhood level, among people in roughly the same class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z What Doc isn’t saying: he still hasn’t gotten his mind around the fact that his top two debaters elected to forgo the actual debate rounds of the tournament and focus solely on advanced pairs argumentation. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Mom reels back, as if my words have landed with the force of an actual, physical blow. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An actual uniform, just like basketball teams, except for a track team. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “In most cases the actual expense is small compared with the probable saving,” says J. G. Matthysse of the New York State College of Agriculture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He melts actual bars of baking chocolate and uses whole “one hundred percent of the fat” milk. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I’m not afraid of being dead. But the actual dying part. You know, what it feels like?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I suppose I should add a few words here concerning the matter of the actual volume around which this small episode revolved. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Everyone laughs at Justin’s jokes, but it quickly becomes obvious that while he’s entertaining, he hasn’t done a whole lot of actual research yet. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Her eyes grew huge with alarm like I was Madame Myrtle and had just foretold the actual future. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It’s possible that Bobby was simply given the gifts on his thirteenth birthday, even though there was no actual coming-of-age Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When pressed to explain the discrepancy between his hypothetical antislavery position and his actual dedication to self-imposed paralysis, he tended to offer several different answers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Endangering off-spring in order to draw in the actual desired target, the parent. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I’m sure if an actual prophet surfaced today, he or she would receive plenty of Haldol injections, until the sky opened up and the doctors were slapped silly by the Hand of God. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Okay, I can't even tell you how much I love the fact that you sent me an actual birthday email. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z His chief tactic was the threat of resignation—underscored now and then by an actual resignation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Had no idea there were actual names for this. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Are there any actual Junior Undertakers on this bus?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I refused to call it tea when it did not contain any actual tea leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to use this time to make my own notes on the radio interview yesterday—as a kind of backstop in case the actual broadcast doesn’t match up with what v.L. remembers of it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The actual speed can be determined at any point in the earth's orbit by using the distance to the sun and the specific orbital energy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It fell short of the actual southern end of the Appalachian Mountain chain by 150 miles and of the northern end by nearer 700. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I believe he naturally assumed Tracy, my stepmother, was my actual mother. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He never went into too much detail about the actual war, though. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Francis did not want to surrender immediately, so he went through some of the actual details of how we went about the model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Short of going to the Wrights and letting them teach us on their actual flying machine, it was the only way of learning how to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t known, before Lindsey, that it was an actual category. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Kepler distinguished between a geometrical hypothesis—the mathematical model used to generate predictions—and an astronomical hypothesis, the actual path of the planet through the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mom follows Sam back to their room, with the actual bed, where Ford slept through the whole thing. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I guess that what influenced me to get my first actual apartment was my not wanting Reginald to be knocking around Harlem without anywhere to call “home.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mom could really cook when she had actual food to work with. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He had become sixteen when winter turned to spring in 1943, but he had no way of knowing which day was his actual birthday. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z And though I hadn’t done the actual pushing—which had seemed an essential distinction at the time—now that didn’t matter much anymore. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The actual affair may not have lasted as long as the opera itself, its incredible five- and-a-half-hour length being one of the many obstacles to its being mounted in its entirety during Berlioz’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The actual work was being done at a factory in the Southeast—the Oak Ridge plant, though Fuchs didn’t know that detail yet. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One with thick slices of bread and actual meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Startled by the good weather, mentally unprepared to commence the actual climb, I hurriedly packed up a rucksack nonetheless and began skiing toward the base of the Thumb. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, in actual fact, did everybody else, but they were too frightened to admit it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The stark and sobering reality is that, for reasons largely unrelated to actual crime trends, the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Consider me alerted. And by the way, unless you are presented with an actual emergency, I want no further interruptions, understood?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I have a hunch there might be no actual rooms at all, that when you walk into the “audition studio,” it’s actually just a direct drop-off to the street below. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “He’ll do the actual work,” the Turk said, indicating the Sicilian, who was wrapping cloth around his cuts. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The others would echo his words or make their voices sound like drums or musical instruments backing up his sermon—although the Vapostori used no actual instruments in their ceremonies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Final Trial scores are common knowledge, but the actual Trial documents are never revealed—not even to criminal investigators. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Back at work, Mr. Kreuk has actual work for me, the kind my official job entails. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “It’s a shame about her, isn’t it? But when I see you with her, the two of you seem to be having actual conversations. Like real people.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I have serious doubts that trying to amend the Constitution would work on an actual level. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Without exactly saying so, he managed to spread the rumor that he and Ken had an after-school job—a very serious job involving actual work. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z No, I mean an actual fog sails in off the river and settles over Lanternwood, like a giant ghostly ship dropping anchor. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Here I was, looking at an actual dead person, a person who I had seen alive just days before. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the problem. You read more about books than you read actual books.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They make me the secretary, which means I have to write everything down—and do all the actual work—while they talk about some boys I don’t know. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s weird, because Blue’s emails used to be this extra thing that was separate from my actual life. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The Dactyl Hill Squad had become the closest thing she’d ever known to a family besides her actual siblings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In the late 1930s, Beadle and Tatum reasoned that isolating the actual eye pigment of a fruit fly might solve the riddle of gene action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But while the actual event occurred on 24 August, one set of tables was a whole month late in its prediction and even the best was several days in error. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He is, instead, bathed dramatically in a sweeping and resplendent sunset, wearing a crisp black jacket and riding pants tucked into tall leather boots, looking every inch an actual fairy-tale prince. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then they started missing actual games, like field hockey and soccer. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The closer we moved to an actual village, the more military and wounded we’d encounter. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Yet students like me do not feel welcomed here, Dr. Cook. Are we just dollar signs to you all, or are we actual human beings?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The cruel reality of summer was that bedtime often preceded actual dark. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z At a place like Fullbrook, the smallest, most insignificant gestures passed for actual concern. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z We got into the car without word one being spoken, and on the actual ride, it was so quiet between us that I imagined I could hear the tire treads rubbing against the road. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He left Shadow his copy of Herodotus with several actual coins hidden in the pages: two quarters, a penny, and a nickel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z They stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Previous to making actual entrance into Central I had feelings that I’m sure have never been expe-rienced by a child of 15 years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tab, Patrick is my actual friend now. Remember?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Oh, I wish you were here to take my picture! Aaaaah! I always thought Broadway was just a cluster of the greatest theaters on the planet. It’s an actual streeeeeet!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Nothing like actual repulsion to start off on the right foot. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The soil is rocky, the terrain steep, and the weather so bad that people take actual pride in it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “How do you get it from this to, like, an actual, real song?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z At any given performance, only half the patrons were there for the actual opera. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In fact, I know very little about the actual state of the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “They’re holding out for it, like it is an actual, actual! possibility.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She hoisted herself up on the table next to me so casually that I had to remind myself that this was no boy made up to resemble a girl, but the actual thing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But these days, actual guilt is an afterthought. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z We read he’s building himself an actual castle with spires and a moat near Brussels, to provide a respite, I guess, from his villas in Paris and Spain and Italy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The babies didn’t wear actual diapers — they delicately moved away and pooed elsewhere if they needed to go. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Pickett estate was silent, sterile, and endless—like a newly built housing subdivision before actual people move into it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Folks aren’t about to let any type of protest go down without trying to stop it. Guess they think that’s better than fixing the actual problem.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She’s a little stunned, because he seems to have understood something about her, the actual her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s an actual owl, staring unblinking and motionless as we cut down the path. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The principle seemed obvious, but the actual experiment proved mysteriously daunting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was like being stuck inside a rolling water balloon, but instead of actual water, the balloon was filled with a galaxy of stars, making him an astronaut with no suit. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I had no idea what the actual hell had just happened. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Holding the actual devices in my hands was a little strange. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I mean, here I was having an actual relationship with a girl, something that happens to normal people, and Rondell was just laying here asleep after beating people up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I flipped the sheet over, looking for any actual news. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I swore I’d get some actual hands-on training when we got back to land. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The name of our objective had not been mentioned until two weeks before the actual invasion date. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But Raisa’s triumph didn’t last long, because at that moment actual Luftwaffe enemy fighter planes appeared in the air above the competition. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The city made no arrangements to help less fortunate citizens procure loans necessary for the actual work. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z East Bank was where the government had gone in, cleared out the squatters and their shacks, and started to build actual homes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The idea of living through an actual war is not something I’ve ever thought about. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z This was David’s third summer at camp, so he had actual friends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z For the actual resort, I’m picturing a place along the lines of Middle Earth, but what I find is acres of thin brown trees and ruins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When the actual trial would begin, we did not know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard candy on the outside but the inside was a warm burst of actual honey, like you’d stuck your spoon into the jar when no one was looking. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z But the string is making all those other possible vibrations, too, all at the same time, so that the actual vibration of the string is pretty complex. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Jesse spends much of his time on Hotline, talking to friends all over the country and around the world about music, software, sometimes actual news. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If their placement had been designed to symbolize a separation from the Court of Honor’s technological advances, then what messages were their actual content meant to send? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z More screams flowed back through the crowd when they realized it was the actual Grammy-winning artists and not a cover band. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Even if the actual enforcement of these laws was sporadic at best. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There might be a guy there with an actual opinion or two. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They checked her heart and took her blood pressure but didn’t do much to treat her actual illness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That was always a signal to pay close attention, because we were about to learn something of actual value. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not know whether it was an actual flood, but I had never seen rain as heavy as what fell on us in Oklahoma that day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z So to survive year-round, I would have had to save enough, in the months between August 1999 and May 2000, to accumulate the first month’s rent and deposit on an actual apartment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was only a rhythmic vibration just below the border of actual hearing. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Clayton wanted to hear what his father would say more than he wanted the actual answer. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I shook my head, actual goose bumps sprouting on my arms and legs as it sank in. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I find the first-aid kit right where Basil or Herb or Dill, or whatever the hell his actual name is, said it would be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She had friends—a quality that the rest of us noticeably did not possess, except for Francis and Eric, who were more like the same person than they were like actual friends. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The only actual poll I ever took myself was informal and designed to answer the burning question: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For reasons that have more to do with class—and often racial—prejudice than with actual experience, they tend to fear and distrust the category of people from which they recruit their workers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only any actual misdemeanor, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Although the ANC had called for talks with the government for decades, we had never been confronted with the actual prospect of such talks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mai sat on her bed and appreciated that she had an actual room with walls and a door that belonged to her and to Willow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I am not sure I have ever heard him use my actual name before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She walks around the room while we’re writing to make sure that we’re not sleeping or using our phones, but the actual writing is totally private. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “When you think about the actual mechanics of the whole deal, it’s actually kind of hilarious, isn’t it?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I was forgetting that I didn’t have an actual life. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I said I would not hurt him. But I never for a moment said he would not suffer pain. You will do the actual tormenting; I will only spectate.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z On August 3, 1959, two years and eight months after our arrests, and after a full year of legal maneuvering, the actual trial commenced at the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This time there’s an actual smile on her face. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The exam went much, much, much better than expected because for the first time I had an actual medical issue. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There was a camping chair in one corner and a nest of blankets in another, and several books stacked in a neat pile next to an actual lantern. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She’d thought He was the actual god of Islam, the one whom Muslims worshiped. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Far worse than the actual work was the idea of being so far away from her children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “You are the actual least romantic person on earth.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He’d placed a chair in front of a bookshelf that was mostly full of expensive-looking vases and china figurines, and not many actual books. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Still hazy about the actual requirements of their new faith, these men pray at no prescribed times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “As they received more information,” Oskamp concluded, “their certainty about their own decisions became entirely out of proportion to the actual correctness of those decisions.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The facts, anyway; no one can say about the actual motivations. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She holds it up and it looks like it’s made of actual clouds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Listening through an earpiece molded to look like her actual ear, Marti heard nothing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The final steps of the journey were actual stairs carved out of the mountain. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z That population growth also proves unsurprising when one stops to consider the actual numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By measuring a contestant’s actual votes against the votes that would truly best serve his self-interest, it’s possible to tell if discrimination is at play. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’m sure somewhere in your childhood, you too had an experience like ours that day; similar if not in the actual details, then inside, in the feelings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual village of Sticklehaven could not be seen, only the hill above it, a jutting out cliff of red rock concealed the actual little bay. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z On May 24, 1252, laborers began clearing the actual site for the new cathedral. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z So thick that you can’t make out any actual feature on their bodies, but you can still see their silhouettes. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The actual source of the yellow fever virus—tree-dwelling monkeys in African and American rain forests—was not identified until 1929. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Better still, 83 percent of all preschoolers fixated on the letters in a left-to-right sequence — mimicking, in other words, the actual reading process. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were still trying to cope with our actual mother leaving us and now Dad had a new woman in his life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t bother with contacts or actual clothes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She tilted her head back, mouth open, and for a moment I thought she was going to attempt an actual screech. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He read all the IVF literature and would talk to me all night about it, but his only actual duty was to show up at the doctor’s office and provide some sperm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We had to spend it all in thirty days, and then we’d get an actual reward. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “I did. The weather was perfect for it—slightly overcast, but nice enough that there were actual people around to photograph.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z For one thing, compared with our actual pace, the training videos were all in slow motion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ocean didn’t respond for at least twenty seconds, which, in the moment, felt like an actual lifetime. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe I could prove that there was an actual villain in Franny’s story. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The key to solving the actual genetic code was to map the elements of a sequence in an RNA chain to the sequence of a protein chain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Her meow is so good I keep thinking there’s an actual cat around.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “No, she’s my actual sister,” Grace said, and was surprised by the bristle in her own voice. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His assumption as to her opinion of his looks was far less favorable than her actual thoughts on the subject. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He seemed aloof from the rest of the group, not an actual member of the coalition, somehow dismissive of it all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It must be cool to have a dad who’s a famous writer, and to know that parts of you are in actual books,” she said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But the actual ride over the Bridge was no different than the ride above the Brooklyn streets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had assumed that she had no other family besides her brother, and that she lived on a small salary, but he had never imagined her actual situation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The seat was enough, and to be honest, I wasn't really expecting any actual words to come my way. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Even prisons—the actual buildings—are a rare sight for many Americans, as they are often located far from population centers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I think her actual last words were “I am glad to die for my country.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Count Rugen did the actual pain inducing; the Prince simply sat by, asking questions out loud, inwardly admiring the Count’s skill. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Most of them are drawings of common images—horseshoes, angels, stars, mermaids—but others are pictures of huge works of art after they’ve been tattooed onto actual people. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The media bonanza surrounding the “new demon drug” helped to catapult the War on Drugs from an ambitious federal policy to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A second later he heard an actual hissing rumble that at first meant nothing to him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And the pain, the first knowledge of absolute isolation and suffering, touched him throughout in its undisguised actual form. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There were no actual footprints, not even a slight scratch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This is the first time we’ve gone to actual school together. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Then she was distracted—some of the guys had whole cases of professional-looking makeup and actual rolls of makeup brushes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “One should advance only a step at a time. We have no actual evidence that Ratchett was dead at that time.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think the people of Gutshot, Tennessee, have ever seen an actual, living Arab?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The actual quote was: "It seems hard to sneak a look at God’s cards. But that He plays dice and uses ‘telepathic’ methods...is something that I cannot believe for a single moment." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We have an actual picnic basket and everything. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Sure, she hadn’t found a link to Parker and the actual construction of the tennis courts at Vickers Park in 1985, but she couldn’t see any other solution. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And he really did set off those bombs when he was a freshman, which when you stop to consider sort of shows a pattern—an actual pattern. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Lin was listed as the official trainer of the horse, but the actual conditioning had been done by Jimmy Smith, Tom’s son. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Not the actual fluid, but the containers that hold it, which are in every car. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The preacher started talking in actual English, more or less. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “What’s perfect? I feel like it’s the actual definition of imperfect.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was an actual house, not a mobile home. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But Ptolemy and his followers had assumed that measurements could be regarded as approximations: in practice, there were bound to be minor discrepancies between theoretical predictions and actual measurements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Holding the actual pieces of paper, seeing the name large and clear across the top, Cara stopped worrying. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe T felt more like an actual brother, because of our sisters. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z However, I am not at all certain now as to the actual circumstances which had led me to be standing thus in the back corridor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In actual fact, however, residues turn up whenever a check is made. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This, supported by the inability to trap or record an actual bird and the negative DNA tests, all led to the conclusion that my town had been living a lie for nearly four months. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z This wasn’t the actual infant he’d once seen, but it felt that way to him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Buffon’s observations found surprisingly eager support among other writers, especially those whose conclusions were not complicated by actual familiarity with the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I couldn’t get over how happy I was, crying genuine tears of actual happiness for the first time in maybe forever, imagining my mom as a Patrick. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Still, he couldn’t see the glow of light that signaled the arriving train, or see headlights of the actual train. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The symposium featured a full-scale reproduction, fifteen feet wide and thirty-four feet long, complete with actual artifacts and bones, of a particularly profitable section of Howard's excavation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He kissed me and I felt actual euphoria, like all my senses had merged and I was reduced to breaths and heartbeats and repeating integers. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z So in undergrad, we had a visiting speaker and a classmate whispers to another, “Oh my God, he looks so Jewish,” with a shudder, an actual shudder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z These two, a man and a woman, wear the tattered, thrown-together clothes of actual rebels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My actual eyes have been closed for so long on Noelle’s shoulder that the hall is blinding. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z This was how they did the lab preps, the AP and regular-track students lumped together before they broke up into smaller groups for the actual experiments. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It’s one thing to suspect what’s in a person’s head, and another to see the truth in actual words poured out page after page. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We were yelling for reasons that had nothing to do with the actual argument. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the strictest secrecy, we fed it the original data involved in the steel decision, its own answer, and the actual developments since,—the overproduction, that is,—and asked for an explanation of the discrepancy.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit had been a very late foal, born at the end of May 1933, but in January 1935, half a year short of his actual birthday, he was deemed a two-year-old, officially eligible to race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know the actual name of the song, but it was one of the popular ones that everybody knows. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an actual label with a logo for your business?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I’d never held an actual guitar, but on a virtual axe, I could totally shred. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She’s cautioning him about what he’s going to do with the knowledge, not the actual mushrooms. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I longed to point out to him that it was an actual impossibility to clean a much-used room to the point where no speck of dust remained, but that would have been suicide. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z These weapons, assegais, which are spears, and knobkerries, wooden sticks with a heavy wooden head, are actual weapons with which Inkatha members killed ANC members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world’s actual food producers, aren’t necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m scared to jump, not out of the plane, but into the actual open space before me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And when they did buy from Olive she gave them a sense of actual combat, of putting a bayonet in the stomach of Germany. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The route to the park was clear of holes and rubble in the actual street, so it would not be that much of a problem. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra had explained everything to her friends as best she could, leaving out all the actual supernatural stuff she’d seen. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z We even dressed the way we knew Sarah wanted us to: I had on an outfit, matching shoes and all, and Jon wore a suit and an actual tie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I definitely felt attracted to some people, and I liked the idea of being with someone, but the actual mechanics of it didn’t much suit my talents. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I had a headache—not an ache in my brain but an actual aching of my brain, as if the organ itself was tender. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He takes a flask—an actual flask—out of his back pocket. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As awesome and amazing as it was to be touching an actual Holy Being from the creation stories, Nathan still had to find a way back to Nali’s place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “So she’ll be doing what you said he did, actual magic disguised as stage illusions. Did she do that at the audition?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The thought of turning my ideas into an actual song, with a melody and harmonies, and the lyrics I’ve been working on, sounds exactly like what I’ve been dreaming about for weeks now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Most of which don’t even have anything to do with his actual plan. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She never put anything actual on paper until she had settled her house down at night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Even within their own agency, they did their best to disguise who had done the actual work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As for the actual story itself: there will be no more math. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Clearly waiting for us to get this over with so we can go back to actual practice. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Besides the more than four million acres_of rangelands sprayed each year, tremendous areas of other types of land are also potential or actual recipients of chemical treatments for weed control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We didn’t really do any actual dancing: just some basic steps and a little rough blocking. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Always remember, though, that it is the actual distance in half steps between the notes that determines the type of interval, not whether the notes are written as natural, sharp, or double-sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Genie had never seen an actual pea patch—a pea garden—before. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “There is no actual law that says I can’t visit my family while I’m an apprentice.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even without sunlight, there were actual plants—clumps of reeds, scrawny leafless trees, even a few sickly-looking flowers blooming in the muck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The actual workers and patrons appeared rough around the edges, dressed in jeans and T-shirts and, well, loaded up with piercings and tattoos. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The actual Clovis would still be snoring in his armchair back at camp. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Quentin did not answer, staring at the window; then he could not tell if it was the actual window or the window’s pale rectangle upon his eyelids, though after a moment it began to emerge. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual work was done by the servants, of course, but the queen bee of all this busyness was indisputably Lady Constance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She wore an actual maid’s uniform, black, with white apron. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His floor is painted to look like a half basketball court, and he can play on an actual hoop on his wall. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Inside, the store was about as tidy as an actual barn and didn’t smell much better. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The other celebration, the Bengali one, is held on the closest Saturday to the actual date of his birth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary is better, not just because of the double D alliteration action, but also because Diary reminds me of the name Darryl, so at least I feel like I'm talking to an actual someone. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “You mentioned that once on your blog. Two years ago ” I almost cited the date of the actual blog entry before I realized it would make me sound like even more of a cyber-stalking super-creep. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After all, Greenwich was considered an actual suburb of New York, a commuting suburb. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They shimmered and rippled, and when I looked closer, I realized that the threads were fragments of stories—actual lines from tales I vaguely remembered—spun into golden silk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In fact, these reference works, with their careful attention to history, literature, and actual usage, are the most adamant debunkers of grammatical nonsense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I always looked at that time in the hospital as being my actual birth, because I remember nothing of my life from before those days. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I can’t even say ‘hair pie,’ ” I told him, “unless I’m talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits. Cool driving gloves.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There’s an actual grocery store instead of a deli. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Then he would come close to actual weeping when he described to the class the death of Manolete which he had studied exhaustively while in Spain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think it could be the same one? I mean, the actual one. The one you lost?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A real house with curtains and proper shelves for my books and actual chairs to sit on, not old lard buckets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The wildest imaginings that dark rumour had ever suggested to the hobbits fell altogether short of the actual dread and wonder of Moria. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It might not even mean an actual crossroads. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A guy in work clothes leaned out the shotgun window with an actual shotgun and fired a long-tailed streamer into one of the logs. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people don't have actual neck muscles, but he did. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, before we go out on an actual date?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It’s a miracle I didn’t think my actual name was “Bookie” when I was little, considering how much she used it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “It’s your big day. Why don’t we play something you have an actual chance of winning? Honor Pictionary?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Manic-depression was much cooler than actual depression, because you got the manic parts. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Some use actual postcards, others choose to make their own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It might take an actual miracle to dislodge it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Almost no investigation was done into the poor medical care the victim had received, care that constituted the actual cause of death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Arm described his glimpse inside the Mellower and how, after the dinner party, he had walked through General Matsika’s thoughts, opened a door and stepped into an actual memory. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And if it was Dad who set the actual target of an even dozen, Mother as readily agreed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe T felt more like an actual brother, because of our sisters. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s good to feel his fingers entwined with mine again, not for show but in actual friendship. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to think of the Rusties as actual people, rather than as just an idiotic, dangerous, and sometimes comic force of history. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z However, this was just a trick to conceal the body’s actual location. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They split us into two groups, and we trail behind them into the parking lot, where there are actual buses waiting to be boarded. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t think people actually did that, but he currently had an actual pencil behind his ear. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But his polite regrets didn’t impose upon her, and when she galloped away with the Count, she saw Laurie sit down by her aunt with an actual expression of relief. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z From Martin’s accounts, the actual uprisings were small and chaotic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Zara had said and done a bunch of things that made me furious, but to be honest, I couldn’t remember any actual meanness. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think that’s the actual expression, but I get the point. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The puzzles and riddles were fun, and she devoured the books, but the actual seeking was what brought her back to this game again and again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I counted, by actual count, one hundred and fourteen.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In actual fact Dandelion covered three hundred yards to the cattle shed in a good deal less than half a minute. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, I am to understand, what actual men of honor do with armies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “They’re probably about to go the Garden High route. Have actual cops acting as security.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There are no actual accidents, though, just a steady stream of customers. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Thus, according to the American College Dictionary, a fact is ‘something that actually exists; reality’ and also, or alternatively, ‘a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Seanie and Joey stayed there with me while the doctor stitched me up, but he wouldn’t let them stand too close when he was doing the actual sewing part. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We eat it at the actual dining table on our parents’ wedding china, and my mom brings out the manger scene centerpiece that rotates like a fan when you light a candle beneath it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z In six weeks it would be an actual thing out there in the world, about halfway to completion, not just an abstract concept. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Then he changed to modern speech and described some of Father’s actual victories. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z So when you’re the actual person it happened to, that has to be rough...even if you can’t remember anything because you were a baby. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It might be time to ask an actual person. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Mom had driven me to school on the actual first day. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They had only one actual book in English which would be placed in a Tralfamadorian museum. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A little creative lying can draw attention, indignation, and—perhaps most important—the money and political capital to address the actual problem. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Calibrated dates are the ones believed to correspond more closely to actual calendar dates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jason couldn’t believe he was about to visit the actual palace of Odysseus - one of the most famous Greek heroes of all time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It had been printed to be the exact same dimensions as the actual wall drawing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was, essentially, a first draft, laid out in a picture book that roughly corresponded to the way the actual episode would unfold, scene by scene, on television. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But they aren’t real ruins: They’re like a sculptural re-creation of ruins built eighty years ago, but the fake Ruins have been neglected pretty badly, so they have kind of become actual ruins by accident. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Once a month, Mom takes the subway down to this actual jail and talks to criminal pregnant women about what to expect after they have their babies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z My actual birthday, two weeks away, was about twenty-four million miles in front of Julia Bishop and me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z "I had no idea you were taking pictures. We’re trying to save actual lives, and you’re flitting around with your camera? I told everyone you were too young." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The syrup is too sweet and there’s more oily skin on the chicken than actual chicken. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z As they left the launch pad, their actual path in the sky was calculated and compared with the ideal path, which was shown as a line on the wall in Mission Control Center. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice of Goldstein had become an actual sheep’s bleat, and for an instant the face changed into that of a sheep. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “You’re right. This isn’t only about Marcus. It’s also about justice for Lucy. That poor girl’s family deserves to see her actual murderer behind bars.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z While some expressed pro-Nazi sentiments, few companies were prepared to act on them, so actual spies were rare. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Travis and Dill’s preacher had given the eulogy, and it was long on the light and the life and the resurrection and short on actual details about Travis’s life. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And as much as I hate to admit it, Kelton—who has actual training with weapons—is probably a much better shot than I am. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The floor and walls were smooth, sanded down to resemble an actual hallway inside a building. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But when the time came for the actual show, things got...weird. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Not a socially sanctioned killer, but an actual murderer? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z During the actual performances he and Arnold were to stay backstage and out of sight—unless something happened to Ginger. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m not allowed in actual combat, but they invite me to the meetings on the status of the war, which is a lot more than they did in 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The actual headstone was covered in green and yellow lichen, and so worn and faded as to almost be undecipherable, but the rubbing was clear. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z But now that the actual possibility seemed to be right in front of me, it seemed so far-fetched, crazy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Philosophy tells us that the universe consists of concentric spheres; the actual patterns made by the planets as they move through the heavens is a subject for astronomy, which is a sub-branch of mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Not the letter. An actual eye. And that’s a foot. Or maybe a tree. And a trunk. Dad, I think that’s a trunk!” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z For the first time since the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, it seemed to Kremlin officials that America had revived the threat of actual nuclear war. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Something moved in her peripheral view, and Emily turned to see an actual man standing there, scanning the titles on the bookcase alongside the entrance. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For their wanderings, Amanda and Roamer are planning to focus on the James Whitcomb Riley Museum and our local farm and history museum, which is right here in Bartlett and features an actual Egyptian mummy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She wore an actual, well, skirt, not one of those short-short ones, and what might have been bobby socks, and looked as though she’d just walked out of my grandparents’ Brooks Brothers catalog. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Then, in desperation: “Werfel knows more than me! He’s an actual goblin!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Amalgamation occurs instead in either of two ways: by merger under the threat of external force, or by actual conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she remembered the actual feel of the toad, and the revulsion passed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you may have to give me a hand when it comes to the actual crafting.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Her first actual unrehearsed syllable of the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I help there. Not with the actual weaving. But I clean up the scraps and help prepare the looms. It is work I can do with my hands and arms. And I am strong.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to think of these people not as players mouthing speeches but as actual persons, living out a part of their lives before me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The part we were in, the part with the actual ruins—Takhte Jamsheed—was small enough to fit in our neighborhood back home. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I could feel my mind sifting through all the various presidents that day, trying to match what I remembered from history classes with visions of the families who’d walked these actual halls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The actual operation of drug forfeiture laws seriously undermines the usual rhetoric offered in support of the War on Drugs, namely that it is the big “kingpins” that are the target of the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We had moved to Tyhalarha by the river a few days before the actual circumcision ceremony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even beyond the physical attraction, could it not be remotely possible that I have actual feelings for her? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Perhaps not as strong as the actual mutts, but purer, because it’s not competing with sewage and explosives. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They are echoes from the past that no longer attach to any actual sound. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a maternal gesture that I’m much more willing to receive from her than my actual mother. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The actual model building would start right after lunch, and more concrete plans must be formulated to make the process efficient. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The negative aspect is that it means that all intervals except for octaves are slightly out of tune with regard to the actual harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Their speculations were purely abstract and theoretical; they applied to any possible world and not to our actual world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I could feel them, the actual words I wanted to say, shaping. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I could feel them touching me in places, like an actual shawl. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t get close to the actual stones unless you’d bought tickets ahead of time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They had us dig out the foundation for the Factory, but the camp controllers didn’t trust us with the actual building of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Of course it is in some sense an act of faith to postulate the existence of an actual girl, or even two. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I would pay you actual money to be the one to tell my mom she needs medication.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Finally, she heard an officer reading the actual order for British troops to march from the city at dawn on December 4 and head for Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine living in a house like this, with an actual yard and everything. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Part of the answer is that actual humans experience a little more “friction” than marbles do, and the poorer they are, the more constrained their mobility usually is. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He can always tell when she’s lying by the tone of her voice, and he knows she’s accusing him of an actual threat she most certainly would report him for. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z None of this, of course, was supported by so much as a grain of actual evidence–nothing so wrong could be–yet it was geological orthodoxy for the next half century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was rare but not unknown to have some kids with actual athletic talent with us there on those Friday afternoons. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Beginning to feel he was in actual danger, the secretary jumped off the car, pushed through the crowd, and sprinted toward a nearby building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Hey, I wanted him to bring home actual stray animals, so imagine my disappointment whenever he’d come home with a chair.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Maybe Bouain was tired by all the months of posturing to his men and wanted an actual companion. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z For Thanksgiving, Titi Magda always tells the family to show up at two knowing we won’t get there until four, which is the actual time the kitchen will be ready. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The brother, the eldest, is a Gestapo officer—an actual Frenchman who has been made an underling in the Ormaie Gestapo headquarters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I never confused my teachers or the priests with actual family members; in fact they were most awesome for being without families. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no actual shouting, but a fair amount of hand waving, most of it by Master Hemme, who seemed to have taken the same dislike of me that I had for him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z You would think that this week of having actual food, prepared by a human cook, would have been a welcome change. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, almost literal...there doesn’t seem to be an actual lock. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Ophie realized the woman was wearing a dressing robe, not an actual dress, and she thought once more of Clara and her refusal to come downstairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It was a vivid picture, and as Jethro read, he felt as if he were an actual witness to the unbelievable thing that had happened. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know the addresses I hold, or at least not exactly I know the roads but not the actual houses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z My mother sighed dramatically at Navid’s comment and started scrounging up actual food for us. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe he thinks I’ll be a doctor one day even though I hate blood, and bad smells, and the actual insides of bodies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The proper role of the League, Lawes believed, ought to be as a “moral force,” not an actual mechanism of self-government. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, still, I could remember nothing of the actual dream now that I was awake. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I had reviewed the floor plan of the actual buildings, memorized everything from the ceiling heights to emergency exits to electrical outlet locations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She had to look that one up to make sure it was an actual word. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The article avoided making any reference to actual readings, for they had none to report. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That worked for a few months, until they needed actual copper fittings for their equipment, at which point they referred to the genuine metal as “honest-to-God copper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The pot was so distracting that hardly anyone referred to the race by its actual name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Except while Amelia pushes playfully, Libby gives her an actual shove. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The world around us is alive with color, albeit even those of us who are not colorblind see only a relatively narrow band of the actual light spectrum. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded like this made some kind of actual sense. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But she feels strong and good, and being in an actual big city is a shot of adrenaline. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Therefore, color is not really an actual part of things I happen to see.’ The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a disappointment, since Virgil hoped to slip out the front door without having an actual conversation with either of his parents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “The actual truth is, Mr. Poirot, that I know nothing at all! Mr. Ratchett never spoke of himself, or of his life in America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual landing had been the one part of the mission that had been impossible to rehearse prior to the actual moment—and the most dangerous. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Now that they were closer, I could see that in addition to the sprinting lion-men were a pack of actual lions, including a pair harnessed to a chariot carrying two people. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It always sounded weird to Nathan whenever he heard her actual name. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The MartelLs would not commit to actual battle unless Dome itself was attacked, and Stannis was not so great a fool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When the time came for the actual debate, however, I attacked the National Party quite firmly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Over his cashmere turtleneck he wore an actual white coat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Effie takes both of us by the hand and, with actual tears in her eyes, wishes us well. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then, there were indications she was misreading the actual size of the islands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If anything, most people just assume Uncle Tony's my pops, which is cool, but it just never hit me that I don't really talk about my actual dad. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z But it’s perhaps stretching it to claim students who’d left were an actual taboo. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Though we lived just on the borders of actual starvation, I could not bribe Granny with a promise of half or two-thirds of my salary; her answer was no and never. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A faithful replica, except the paint was more simplified than his actual colon ing would have been. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I, the youngest, get to celebrate my actual birthday even though I turned a year older like everyone else at T£t. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On the actual day of the inauguration, however, Jefferson did not have Adams by his side as he rode down a stump-infested Pennsylvania Avenue to the yet-unfinished capitol. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We go to my rooms and she puts me in a full-length gown and high-heeled shoes, not the ones I'll he wearing for the actual interview, and instructs me on walking. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They estimated that between 1.5 million and 2 million of these listeners believed they were hearing actual news. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And yet perhaps, they said to each other, perhaps it would not take actual shape for a time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Recently, she’s been using text abbreviations out loud sometimes, even though she never uses them in actual text messages. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Not that I’m going to take this far—all I need is confirmation of Justin’s willingness, not actual contact. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Lenny is organizing his undershirt drawer with an actual flashlight, completely oblivious to the disco dance party room that he’s in. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z They moved in rhythm, like the legs of centipede but without the actual centipede body. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I'm literally the only one of Fagin’s boys played by an actual guy. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The actual bait wasn’t based in smell at all. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was as if the C.O.’s words, the actual syllables he addressed to Milton, had been scrambled by the boys over in Intelligence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was almost like a real holiday, and her husband actually seemed relaxed, like a regular person on an actual vacation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He never once touched on the fact that Yakov had been an actual person, someone with history and dreams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z During moments of actual violence, they often felt separated or isolated from themselves, as if they were watching someone else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunter turned, looked them up and down, and laughed, but in a way more for them to hear than as a manifestation of actual mirth. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Overlooked in these reports was the fact that the program in question was a pilot project that offered far more generous child care and other subsidies than Minnesota’s actual welfare reform program. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But more than any shame I feel about my own actual violence, my greatest regret was that in seeking to defend you I was, in fact, endangering you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Since they weren’t actual books with spines, none of the covers included their call numbers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z At an actual meet, Luke’s routine began as soon as the 126s started—slowly transforming into a workout probably more vigorous than his coach liked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I try, “I miss you. The actual you.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I want to see Sesame Street,” Sonia had said, believing that it was an actual landmark in the city, and she had cried when Gogol had laughed at her, saying it didn’t exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve never failed an exam in my life. But they weren’t testing actual knowledge, they were testing our ability to answer tricky multiple-choice questions that have nothing to do with real medical knowledge.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I don’t know if there will be actual finals in these classes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I just want to see what it’s like to talk to an actual rabbi.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Apart from the occasional night landing, there wasn’t much to the actual flying that Maddie found challenging. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was one thing to be standing right at the edge of the forest with someone close by; it was a whole other to be touching an actual tree from the Cursed Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The crowd is a mix of tourists who’ve wandered too far from Times Square and actual working New Yorkers wishing the tourists would just go back to Times Square. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There’s no actual fight, so I go home, disappointed. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The actual site of the duel was a narrow ledge, about ten feet wide and forty feet long, located only twenty feet above the water. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In truth, the Ladakhis were at 28,550 feet when they turned around, about two hours below the actual summit, which at that time still jutted above the highest clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I have no idea if the actual dahlia flower smells this good, but this lotion is working just right for me today. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Her cheeks are already warm from the heat of exertion and the April sun, but this is an actual blush. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I'm talking about their actual presence in any given movie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I’m in the bathroom looking between my actual body and my body in the mirror. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom would have told me the actual exact name of it, I remember thinking. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They told each other all of it, though Lazlo didn’t think it necessary to repeat the warriors’ actual words. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She is sitting in one wingback with a laptop, scrolling through stories from the Kansas archives, and Molly in the other, reading actual books from Vivian’s library. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His interpretations of the commandments might have been stretches, but nothing he did was an actual violation. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Creating an actual, edible dinner out of a sidewalk-hard, so-cold-it-burned-your-hand box of chicken legs or a potpie began to seem a little bit magical. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The thought surprised him, as if its source had been founded in actual memory, a wisp of light in the darkness of his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There exist many actual cases of hunter-gatherers who did see food production practiced by their neighbors, and who nevertheless refused to accept its supposed blessings and instead remained hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Everyone fled the building while we discussed the likelihood of an actual bombing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And now here I was, standing just outside the actual country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The day of the actual competition dawns bright and chilly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Or, rather, they passed by a chapel that was thought to contain the conqueror’s mummified body; the actual remains turned up years later, stashed inside two metal boxes beneath the main altar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He never breathed a word, at least not to me, until the actual rift became public. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to picture this, a child-sized lump on top of an actual child, but I could only imagine a giant balloon, carrying her away. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And because I’ve turned into an actual cliché, I jump straight into the whole routine. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It was chic to have an actual living person you could order around. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They snail-mailed the actual diploma to my address in the stacks, which no longer existed, so I don’t know what became of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I guess that works. I’ll look up the actual number tonight. It could be a good project.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They are actual human skulls whose faces have been “reconstituted” in tinted plaster, with pieces of seashell for the eyes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Basil’s actual name is Herb, but somewhere along the line my brother and I began referring to him as various herbs in our garden. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The towel we use for actual hand drying is on the counter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Hannah looks up from her phone to say, “This is kind of depressing. I mean, this is the actual highlight of these girls’ lives. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She doesn't have an actual shell, of course, but whatever hard casing that protects her from life literally shifts before my eyes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I’ve been in the actual office that it seems smaller now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Before that we’d hung out because no one else wanted to be friends with us, but we were actual friends after the punching. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I proposed that this be done in two stages, the first being a discussion to create the proper conditions for negotiations, the second being the actual negotiations themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In all this cloud of controversy, what are the actual facts? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My actual release time was set for 3 P.M., but Winnie and Walter and the other passengers from the chartered flight from Johannes-burg did not arrive until after two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We did occasionally play actual baseball, but not enough kids had gloves to make a good game. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It would have the capability to produce neutrons ten times more energetic than those emitted by the twenty-seven-inch machine, an intensity that “would make it possible to carry on actual clinical therapy of human cancer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Once the file cabinets were walked away from the wall they could see that actual slivers of sky shone through it, lustrous and white. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Its actual appearance was frightening, and not merely the fact that he knew it to be himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There were actual balloon arches and twisted garlands of pastel crepe paper festooning the walls. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I sent actual cards—heavy cream stock with Cadence Sinclair Eastman printed across the top. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He thought of Chicago, where you can go days without ever once stepping on a single patch of actual earth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He’s a little bit soft-spoken, and he has an actual southern accent. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He spent much of his time traveling and gathering material for his books, but always returned to the comfortable old stone house for the actual writing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A part of him wanted to tell Brother Ugo everything he’d seen last night—about the old woman, the strange girl, and his actual encounter with the Shetani—but something held him back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t see how it matters. Even if you found your possible, the actual model they got you from. Even then, I don’t see what difference it makes to anything.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The conquistadors knew the potential impact of disease, but its actual impact, which they could not control, was in the hands of God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Maddie was trained not as an actual paratrooper, but she learned to fly the plane while people were jumping. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Maybe the story came from some part of me that wished I knew more, or at least had actual memories instead of feelings that may have only been inventions. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Experts now believe that the FBI-run station likely gave the Germans better intelligence than they got from their actual spies in South America during the entire rest of the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In actual time, not over an hour elapsed before I had the spare tire on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I threw a wet rag on the possibility by giving my actual name. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I had never seen an actual world globe this big up close and personal, much less had one of my own. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My fear had nothing to do with the actual French people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I always wondered if you had painted someone’s actual hand or if you imagined it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My own situation, when I sit down to assess it after two weeks of work, would not be much better if this were my actual life. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual nature of the genetic code, it turns out, is astoundingly simple: there’s just one molecule that carries our hereditary information and just one code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The strange thing about this cafe, I realize, is that there doesn't seem to be any food or any actual coffee—just weak, bitter tea ladled from a big stockpot. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What I’m thinking is that Safer is the only actual friend I’ve got, unless you count Bob English Who Draws. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It reminds me that I’m stuck with her—she’s unavoidable, even when I’m ignoring her, because Mom is an actual black hole. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If I’ve embarrassed myself in front of an actual nice man. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I turn off the computer, saying good-bye to my e-friends, and go back to the actual human in my living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The woman prevailed, but another heated debate soon developed over who should do the actual handing over. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He mentions actual names of towns and cities from where the reports are coming. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When he located the actual path of Guiteau's bullet, the doctors were astonished. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And once I’m in as an actual player, I’ll have to move fast. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Often, because of the variables in the actual arena, high-scoring tributes go down almost immediately. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was one of the few times his dad was going to be around on his actual birthday, and besides, hitting that two-digit number was a big deal, wasn’t it? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Now to enjoy a good, long sleep in an actual cot. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there’s a long drive to the other side of town, where I have an actual appointment for an interview for an assembly job. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell myself it’s nothing more than the understandable jolt of actual physical contact when you aren’t used to it from someone new. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But the question mark must be outside if it’s not part of the actual quotation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the right altitude, he could almost superimpose the luminous map on his visor over the actual Dublin streets below him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He tried to separate the actual words from the sound of Alice’s voice as she had spoken them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And I find myself wondering once again when I started to think my days would contain actual events. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I don’t think it’s love that makes her feel like a million dollars—but maybe the actual money he gives her for all those wigs and makeup and clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z With Britain still under attack from German bombers, they agreed the actual work of building a bomb would 4 6 be done in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to experience just being a regular girl for once, with an actual sweet, caring boyfriend. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Somehow all this information exhausts me, and I watch the second video, which explains the actual procedures for vacuuming, with the detached interest of a cineast. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual book is so much better than that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z But when I unfolded the actual letter, I gasped. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He turned to Vasilisa and grinned, beaming like the actual sun. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z "An actual incision is not necessary. It's the same thing if you just spit on your hand." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m guessing emotional hangovers feel a lot like actual hangovers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Big Rose was constructing an actual building from real life, I realized. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But nearly always there was the actual touching. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The actual debate in the House in the fall and winter of 1795 proceeded under Madison’s more cautious leadership and narrower interpretation of the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We entered a spacious kitchen, lit not by rush lights but by actual candles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I doubted my grandmother blinked once during the news show—even when there was no more actual news to report about the drowning. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But he was correct about the others: not even Oppenheimer had read the actual text before drafting the message to which Lawrence and Fermi had blindly signed their names. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She’s afraid of what we would choose, if we were given actual freedom. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The designs for Orion, Daedalus and the Bussard Ramjet are probably farther from the actual interstellar spacecraft we will one day build than Leonardo’s models are from today’s supersonic transports. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The prosecutor argued that the probability was so low that such a couple existed that the police investigation must have turned up the actual culprits. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z While Chapman had suggested that Myers must have been pressured to recant, the district attorney presented no actual evidence to support that claim, which made the judge's ruling hard to understand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Of course, I'll never be able to get in close enough to the actual nest to cut it free. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “That wheel runs the actual pump,” he said, “and look at this.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z This will be our home until the actual Games begin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Saxonberg, I have here attached a copy of the actual letter which I have in my files: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His tone carried with it a heavy dose of suggestion, and she realized he hadn’t told either of the adults the actual story of what had happened. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z What if by accepting the reality of the dream, she lost her memories of her actual past? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the actual city it became so thick I could’ve hopped out and walked faster. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It can only be proven that I brought a person onto campus who I presumed to be an expert on sexual deviancy in adolescence and who turned out to be an actual sexual deviant. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z And Washington, playing his role in the agent’s double-dealing, supplied Hunter with such real tidbits as the actual strength of his army and the location of his supply dumps. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought I was younger than my actual fourteen. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She herself hadn’t grown to thirty feet tall, or whatever the actual size was of the glowing screen before him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The actual killing of Mary and Bessie was not what concerned him most; it was knowing and feeling that he could never make anybody know what had driven him to it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Seeing and touching the actual machinery made it easier to understand what all these complicated parts did, instead of just reading about them in books. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “First, we need to come up with an actual plan and then make sure we follow it,” says Elsie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Despite this failure in actual practice, encouraging laboratory experiments led entomologists to believe lice were unlikely to develop resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Anya hadn’t ever thought her hands could be as magical to a dragon as his...well, his actual magic was to her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The actual training rooms are below ground level of our building. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It sounded like she was flipping through the pages of an actual book. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The actual formation of the Youth League took place on Easter Sunday, 1944, at the Bantu Men’s Social Center on Eloff Street. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And by freezing cells at various points, they believed they could see the actual moment when a normal cell growing in culture became malignant, a phenomenon they called spontaneous transformation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What can archaeology can tell us about actual dates and places for the rise of farming and herding in Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She was sure there was an actual chance she would explode. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Even though an automatic thank-you email is sent to donors,” Mrs. Smith said, “it just feels more personable to take the time to send an actual letter. Feels like the least I can do.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I suspected that Jessica enjoyed my inexplicable popularity more than my actual company. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He was always held to be the real founder of Rome because Romulus and Remus, the actual founders, were born in the city his son built, in Alba Longa. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When she looked up, I realized she wasn’t an actual librarian. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “But Ampai is still keeping the actual sun orbs a secret?” asked Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She had to look that one up to make sure it was an actual word. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z No actual writing system employs one strategy exclusively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They played cards at his house once a month, though they usually did more bragging than actual playing. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We had plenty of street crime, but all the actual warring in recent years had been way in the east of the country, a thousand miles away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But Genie still couldn’t see any actual peas. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And it is not just pieces, it is figures and objects, perfectly carved flowers and planets and tiny books with actual paper pages that turn. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nick crosses the dance floor with actual swagger. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “All of those records are on paper, and we don’t have that paper. We have no actual records of any of those people. They’re FEMA’s.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Gregor thought an actual torch would be easier to bring back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “This is not just vanity, Commander. The closer the match, the less interference from the actual eye.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Yes, well, I realized that we’ve never been on an actual date.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I think his actual words were ‘I couldn’t face it without a bottle,’” says Plutarch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Our club decides to execute the actual makeover during Thanksgiving break, when the school is deserted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The reporter had written a standard tearful-wife-waiting-in-anguish-for-news story, which Will found disappointingly short of actual facts. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She did her best to clean up, but she found it ironic that she was in an actual Roman city and couldn’t enjoy a nice hot Roman bath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But the actual intervals — the way the notes sound — are not arbitrary accidents of history. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nearby was a heavy, wandering black line, which I presumed to be the Forest Service road we stood beside, though there was no actual telling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Although everyone appeared to be in superb physical shape, circumstances had forced them to do the bulk of their training on StairMasters and treadmills rather than on actual peaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z My actual godmother, who was standing by the door, also wanted in on the action. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Otherwise, why, you might as well have machines do all the work instead of actual human beings. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual time on the way from Chicago was short, but the overwhelming size and variety of the land, the many incidents and people along the way, had stretched time out of all bearing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Mia went out with her camera, but more often she might spend days, or even weeks, preparing something to photograph, with the actual taking of the photographs lasting only a few hours. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It's the Saturday after Christmas, and Waffle House is packed with old people and kids and random guys sitting at the counter reading actual printed newspapers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Mae puts her hand on her chest, and for a minute, I’m terrified that I’m giving her an actual heart attack. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I don’t mean the actual selling drugs part. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Along the Black Front” sometimes found actual interracial couples to feature. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We had to buy an actual map at a gas station to find our way to Aunt Maureen’s. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He’s sweating a little, and I can’t tell if it’s from being so near to Violet or the actual heat. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Well, the photographs anyway. We'd expect you to bring your actual portfolio with you to the interview, but the photographs were very well done. We got a good idea of your level of talent.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Figure 1.48: A whole rest may be used to indicate a completely silent measure, no matter what the actual length of the measure will be. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Day after day, listening to this endless prattling—she would rather be governess to a whole pack of actual wolves than suffer through that. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Because if it’s an actual clue, that could make a difference.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “People who have actual needs. Don’t you think of doing good in the world?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “I know! Maybe we don’t need the snakeskin stone now because we have an actual snakebite!” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I had no plans to do any actual work, though. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Some of the guerrillas were actual North Korean soldiers who crossed over to recruit, mostly kidnap, young South Korean men. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Hazel had never thought of it as actual smoke, but as she watched it curling around Arion’s legs, floating through the broken arches of the ruined courtyard, the hairs stood up on her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates; somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z |
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