Sentence for acting | Use acting in a sentence

Sentences using the word acting. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use acting in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for acting.

• To be acting! (4)
• I am not acting. (10)
• They have been acting. (4)
• She indeed was acting. (10)
• That man was not acting. (8)
• That, you English call acting. (10)
• I must have been acting wrongly. (10)
• I must have been acting wrongly. (22)
• It was acting a lie to come back. (9)
• She was not acting the shiver of her frame. (10)
• I am not so fond of acting as I was at first. (4)
• This acting scheme gets worse and worse, you see. (4)
• He was acting under strong control of his temper. (10)
• And, acting up to his light, Sir Austin did watch. (10)
• I cannot see you acting wrong, without a remonstrance. (4)
• He was too sick for that: fit only for passive acting. (10)
• My father is acting on his principles, and you know it! (8)
• Acting forthwith on the hot impulse, he seized the lamp. (10)
• You have agreed with me that we are acting for the best. (10)
• You have agreed with me that we are acting for the best. (22)
• Such powers of acting she could not have ascribed to him. (10)
• My aunt is acting like a sensible woman in wishing for you. (4)
• Surely you cannot be acting now; why, gracious mercy, Lorrequer! (6)
• He had been acting as treasurer of the Land League in that place. (14)
• In history you have a respect for such acting up to the scaffold. (10)
• But it was useless to think of acting in accordance with his reason. (10)
• But it was useless to think of acting in accordance with his reason. (22)
• I must have you here to make sure that I am acting under good advice. (10)
• He guessed the length of her acting, and the time for her earnestness. (10)
• She has previously told him that she is acting a part, as Camilla did. (10)
• Has he been acting a part in his behaviour to your sister all this time? (4)
• During all this, I must confess, very little acting was needed on my part. (6)
• He had imagined himself speaking and acting, half as man of business, half as judge. (8)
• He was by no means acting as one on a footing of equality with the people he beholds. (10)
• He was by no means acting as one on a footing of equality with the people he beholds. (22)
• And I maintain that she had no sense at all of acting Spanish prince disguised as page. (10)
• It was pleasing to hear him speak so properly; here he had been acting as he ought to do. (4)
• The sight of the curricle acting satellite to the donkey-cart staggered the two footmen. (10)
• Richard made a playful remark on the necessity of sometimes acting in opposition to fathers. (10)
• But the world must not suppose him soft; the world must think he was still acting on his System. (10)
• In return you do me the service of acting as my paymaster and showing me how to solve my problem. (12)
• By and by, after acting serenest innocent, suddenly broken, she will be copious of sad confessions. (10)
• Was he not thereby acting as a true Christian, in by far the hardest course he and she could pursue? (8)
• Yet, critical as was this lady, she acknowledged that it was no mere acting effort to suit the cap. (10)
• But in politics, beyond acting as the figure-head of certain municipal efforts, he took little or no part. (8)
• Of Edbury she could not speak for grief, believing that he loved her still and was acting under compulsion. (10)
• But, whatever little demerits our acting might have displayed, were speedily forgotten in a champagne supper. (6)
• She had two distinct visions of herself, constantly alternating and acting like the temptation of two devils. (10)
• The resistance could not be ascertained on account of its wet coat acting as a conductor to the electric fluid. (21)
• Reflecting on it, Cecilia grew indignant at the thought that Mr. Tuckham might have been acting a sinister part. (10)
• Thus would he be acting as his own chirurgeon, gaily practising phlebotomy on his person to cure him of his fever. (10)
• I told them I was acting in the interests of every one and could not be deterred by merely material considerations. (12)
• My father wished us, as schoolboys, to speak well, but he would never wish his grown-up daughters to be acting plays. (4)
• Work in the back streets, music, acting, hunting; given them up one after the other; taken to them passionately again. (8)
• It was a delicious day, but she began to fear that she was approaching Verona, and that Pericles was acting seriously. (10)
• If we are not to be beloved, spare us the small coin of compliments on character; especially when they compliment only our acting. (10)
• Then we read the Arabian Nights together, or, rather, he read them to me, often acting out the incidents as we rode or drove abroad. (10)
• Reason, acting in her heart as a tongue of the flames of the forge where we all are wrought, told her surely that the good predominated. (10)
• With both theatre and press on a commercial basis, it follows naturally that the art of acting and the art of criticism should both decline. (16)
• Perceiving that she was sincerely acting according to her sense of principle, he fumed, and departed to his privacy, unable to stand it any longer. (10)
• As a young man he was fond of dancing, acting and practical jokes; though sensitive, he was well and strong, and able to endure rough stage-journeys. (3)
• Unhappily I confounded right speaking with right acting, and conceived, because I spoke so justly, that I was specially approved in pressing her to yield. (10)
• There cannot be a more gentle, affectionate heart; or more obliging manners, when acting without restraint; and her little cousins are all very fond of her. (4)
• Soon the shrewd physical bracing, acting momentarily on my brain, relaxed; the fitful illumination ceased: all ideas faded out-clung about my beaten body-fled. (10)
• This dumb acting places the funmaker at a decided disadvantage, and the problem of creations that will meet public favor is one requiring unusual natural aptitude. (21)
• Acting upon this belief with their characteristically logical and conscientious directness, the sacerdotal rulers of the country mercilessly afflict the sect to which themselves belong. (7)

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