Sentence for acted | Use acted in a sentence

Acted example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use acted in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for acted.

  • Have you ever acted? (8)
  • Already he had acted a lie! (8)
  • They acted queerly to Barclugh. (18)
  • I think father acted twice as well. (9)
  • Seymour acted as master of the hunt. (10)
  • Yes, Mammon has acted Hymen before now. (10)
  • The whole story was acted under his eyes. (10)
  • You may imagine what I felt and how I acted. (4)
  • These men acted as privy council to the king. (5)
  • How would her father have acted by these men? (10)
  • One who acted differently from others, was lost. (8)
  • He even admitted that he acted on his principles! (8)
  • She acted without my orders: she dared to think! (10)
  • Would an endowed newspaper have acted differently? (16)
  • How wonderfully Dad had acted up to that philosophy! (8)
  • She had acted of her free will: that she could say. (10)
  • I never consult other men how they would have acted. (10)
  • She acted on this superstition as if it were a religion. (9)
  • Since then he has acted as conductor at Dresden and Munich. (3)
  • His confidence and my growing recklessness acted in unison. (10)
  • It acted on him like the silent spell of service in a Church. (10)
  • It was known that this young gentleman acted as shopman there. (10)
  • He sat watching the old scenes acted, a numb feeling at his heart. (8)
  • He fancied that they acted upon each other beneficially towards her. (9)
  • He grew like a cork-tree, and acted like a sturdy and well-natured dog. (8)
  • How can she have acted so as to give a colour to this infamous scandal? (10)
  • Lord Fleetwood acted his part, inscrutable as the blank of a locked door. (10)
  • From the moment of doing so he regretted that he had not acted for himself. (8)
  • With soldierly promptness of decision the officer had acted on the revelation. (1)
  • Luigi acted the caution of one who stepped blindfolded across hot iron plates. (10)
  • So she acted on herself by an agent she repudiated, and there was no help for it. (10)
  • Was it true that people always disliked and condemned those who acted differently? (8)
  • The proximity of the trial acted like fire on her faded recollection of incidents. (10)
  • She acted according to her oath, in the teeth of his men two feet across the border. (10)
  • But it was not a merely selfish caution, under which she acted, in putting an end to it. (4)
  • The cleric acted on this information, with results distressing to a pair of true lovers. (2)
  • The shattering blow was merited by one who could not rejoice that he had acted rightly. (10)
  • They had hitherto patiently acted their parts as spectators, immovable on their horses. (10)
  • He had acted on impulse; he knew that if he let his impulse cool he would not act at all. (8)
  • At Beckley Court, acted on by one genuine soul, he forgot it, and felt elate in his manhood. (10)
  • I meant it to be acted by my schoolmates, but I am not sure that I ever made it known to them. (9)
  • So it was agreed: Mrs. Marsett acted violently the thrill of delight she felt in the prospect. (10)
  • Quick of sensation, but not courageously resolved, she perceived how blunderingly she had acted. (10)
  • There is no doubt that he acted with her knowledge and consent when he undertook to punish Yaminsky. (12)
  • I once saw Henry the Eighth acted, or I have heard of it from somebody who did, I am not certain which. (4)
  • He, as he felt horribly in pencilling her address, acted under compulsion; and a woman prodded the goad. (10)
  • Though disease played the heavy role in this drama of life, still it acted its part when least expected. (18)
  • He had proof, the next morning, that the editor had acted promptly, at least so far as regarded the house. (9)
  • I know how he acted to father; but at this minute I pity him so that I could take his part against father. (9)
  • I see that I might have acted wisely, and did not; but that is a speculation taken apart from my capabilities. (10)
  • To the relative who has acted as mother for years, the prospect of premature separation is naturally obnoxious. (21)
  • Weyburn acted on his instinct at sight of the postillion and the chariot; he flung the window wide and shouted. (10)
  • Air-raids, also, had acted beneficially on a spirit congenitally cautious, and hardened a character already dogged. (8)
  • Tell me what it is, explain the grounds on which you acted, and I shall be satisfied, in being able to satisfy you. (4)
  • In this moment of hopeless confusion the Colonel acted by pure instinct, rose, patted her cheek, and placed a chair. (8)
  • She thought and acted in terms of the public good, regulated by what people of position said at luncheon and dinner. (8)
  • From time immemorial we have acted in this immoral manner, till we have accustomed the Press and Public to expect it. (8)
  • Various as the Serpent of old Nile, she acted fallen beauty, humorous indifference, reckless daring, arrogance in ruin. (10)
  • She begged my forgiveness for her hardness, adding characteristically that she could never have acted in any other manner. (10)
  • The ladies never acted so well as when they were in the presence of a fact which they acknowledged, but did not recognize. (10)
  • The full-bodied angel ceremoniously bowed to her, and acted with reserved unction the benefactor he saw in their greetings. (10)
  • But the little model, who mentally lived very much from hand to mouth, and had only the philosophy of wants, acted differently. (8)
  • But starved as he was, the whispered sounds in the stillness, the half-seen forms in the dark, acted on him like some morbid stimulant. (8)
  • Another letter from the Sanfredini in Milan, warmly inviting to her villa over Como, acted on him at breakfast like the waving of a banner. (10)
  • But the mind he addressed was of a curious order; far-shooting, tough, persistent, and when acted on by the spell of devotion, indomitable. (10)
  • It would be going only to multiply trouble to the others, and increase his own distress; and a much better scheme followed and was acted upon. (4)
  • She could not think the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagement, without sending her any message of excuse. (4)
  • Mrs. Berry had acted conspicuously in fifteen marriages, by banns, and by licence, and to have such an obvious requisite dinned in her ears was exasperating. (10)
  • We have splendid tragedies, we have the most beautiful of poetic plays, and we have literary comedies passingly pleasant to read, and occasionally to see acted. (10)

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