Actually in a sentence

Hamidullah here is actually dead.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

Today we mean to communicate to the Princetown people where they should look for their missing man, but it is hard lines that we have not actually had the triumph of bringing him back as our own prisoner.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It was then that it left the print which was actually observed by Dr. Mortimer.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

They lodged, I find, at the Mexborough Private Hotel, in Craven Street, which was actually one of those called upon by my agent in search of evidence.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

But not actually raining?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

He would use the baronet in order to convince the Stapletons that we were really gone, while we should actually return at the instant when we were likely to be needed.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

There remain the people who will actually surround Sir Henry Baskerville upon the moor.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

So you actually thought that I was the criminal?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— in act or in fact : REALLY
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Macmillan
— used for emphasizing what is really true or what really happened
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Usage

10 uses of ‘actually’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
7 uses of ‘actually’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle