Sentence for act | Use act in a sentence

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• I told you how to act. (10)
• Why not act vigorously? (8)
• Do I ever act as he does? (22)
• No; but you act as if I had. (8)
• But this was long after the act. (8)
• To mislead is an act of treason. (16)
• You see she does not like to act. (4)
• The constabulary would have to act. (8)
• The act was passed finally 3 March, 1891. (14)
• This was her unconscious act of reprisal. (10)
• Why should not he act upon the suggestion? (9)
• Let her think and act as she chooses, however. (4)
• The desperate act was apparent, and told all. (10)
• I give you strength to realize, courage to act. (10)
• As to the justice of the act, let us say nothing. (10)
• The act is an old one now and vastly improved upon. (21)
• As Mr. Rushworth is to act too, there can be no harm. (4)
• It will act as a sort of signal for general happiness. (10)
• Consider what it would be to act Amelia with a stranger. (4)
• Billy Morgan inaugurated the now common mule riding act. (21)
• What have we suffered for but to find this out and act on it? (10)
• A back view of the General was displayed in his act of digging. (10)
• Caroline was urgent with her uncle to act on such good counsel. (10)
• In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend yourself? (4)
• Mama displeases me in consenting to act as housekeeper to old Grumpus. (10)
• He is now one of the Forepaugh herd which perform a famous dancing act. (21)
• I refuse to act the part of warming-pan any longer; I refuse point blank. (10)
• But it was not the mere act of dying which tried his courage and serenity. (14)
• And by that act I have made an enemy to our house who may crush us in ruin. (10)
• We are one at heart, each free to judge and act, as it should be in friendship. (10)
• But presently we shall teach the Puritan to act by the standards of his religion. (10)
• Consider the fate of this poor fellow, and what an act of vengeance brings him to! (10)
• Septimus Barmby satisfactorily smoked: Mr. Peridon traced mortal evil to that act. (10)
• Every act, or series of acts, requires music exactly in keeping with its character. (21)
• Much so they pressed for a nearer sight of its walnut visage, and shrank in the act. (10)
• Bernhardt was so unimpressive in it that you scarcely noticed the act of its delivery. (9)
• Yet at the moment of the act of the deed he had known himself the veritable Fleetwood. (10)
• It is impossible for you to doubt his distress on the morning when he committed this act. (8)
• Read only the first act aloud to either your mother or aunt, and see how you can approve it. (4)
• I am trying to establish the state of mind in which the prisoner committed this act, my lord. (8)
• It allows them to think they are of such a compound, and must necessarily act in that manner. (10)
• His delivery of the card appeared to act on him like the flourish of a trumpet before great men. (10)
• He knew once, long in advance of the act or an indication of it, that Rinaldo was bent on prayer. (10)
• The burning of a rick is an act of vengeance, and a ploughman out of employ is a vengeful animal. (10)
• There is a partial delight in the contemplated submission to an act of servitude for the last time. (10)
• And nevertheless he was haunted by a cry of criminal happiness for and at the commission of the act. (10)
• He pushed for an indication of cheerful consent to the act she was about to commit, or of reluctance. (22)
• It was a wild night, and he would not let Markey, whose chest was not strong, go outside to act as guide. (8)
• Palmet pricked up his ears; but he was taken out riding to act cavalier to Mrs. Devereux and Miss Halkett. (10)
• Gower wrote in a language transparent of the act, addressed to a reader whose memory was to be impregnated. (10)
• The act of service was beautiful in gracefulness, and her simplicity in doing the work touched it spiritually. (10)
• Something in the cruel hang of his threatening hatchet jaw silenced many in the act of confirming the assertion. (10)
• She thanked him for it; an act whereby she was: instantly melted to such softness that a dread of him haunted her. (10)
• But it was his instinct so to act, and in times of trial great natures alone are not at the mercy of their instincts. (10)
• Nevil lashed his head for the clear idea which objurgation insists upon implanting, but batters to pieces in the act. (10)
• The equilibrist retorts that for next season he has arranged an act that will discount anything ever seen under tent. (21)
• The chorus was employed but sparingly, generally appearing only at the end of the act to give greater eclat to the finale. (3)
• The letter was brief, and said simply that the act of which Laxley had been accused, Evan Harrington was responsible for. (10)
• Or will you forever pursue that shadow of liberty which still escapes from your hands, even when in the act of grasping it? (18)
• She would have given anything to recall her act; and then with a flash she realised that it was quite possible to recall it. (9)
• The desperate act of her flight demanded immediate recognition from him in simple language and a practical seconding of it. (10)
• Be sure of my knowing how you are treated, and at the slightest act of injustice I shall be beside you to take you to myself. (10)
• She had to act a part every day with Mrs. Chump, while all those she loved, and respected, and clung to, were in the same conspiracy. (10)
• The sigh was partly voluntary, though unforced; as one may with ready sincerity act a character that is our own only through sympathy. (10)
• Having left France in order to escape the consequences of {81} some rash act, he burned for some chance to retrieve the honour of his name. (19)

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