Sentence for action | Use action in a sentence

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

• Are you going to take action? (8)
• He can make it a criminal action. (8)
• Plot, action, character, dialogue! (8)
• He must I am certain be capable of every bad action! (4)
• All hope of a general action was over. (10)
• He has commenced an action against her. (10)
• The action was perceived by Mrs. Chump. (10)
• He lived a life of the most violent action. (8)
• It fell short, but the action did her good. (8)
• Being a man of action, he had gone to sleep. (8)
• Action means life to the soul as to the body. (10)
• The action served to harden a growing purpose. (8)
• Her thoughts resolved to action spontaneously. (10)
• Words were no use when they contradicted action. (8)
• Victory was only to be won by quick and vigorous action. (19)
• If she rebelled, it would not be in spirit, but in action. (8)
• And, moreover, there is a little piece of action in store. (10)
• They were full, unshaded direct, the man himself, in action. (10)
• A little more of us was called into action, but never the whole. (2)
• He was essentially the wise youth, both in counsel and in action. (10)
• Not in incident: my life has been destitute of adventure and action. (1)
• Power, the hard man knit for action, Reads each nation on the brow. (10)
• With that action the matter-of-fact side of her nature came to life again. (8)
• The secret of human action is an open one: something contracts our muscles. (1)
• Both being spirits formed for action, a perplexity found them weak as babes. (10)
• She wanted external life, action, fields for energies, to vary the struggle. (10)
• Furthermore, friends had gone to the Privy Councillor to plead for swift action. (12)
• The action appeared to give some warmth to his heart, for he petted her, in return. (10)
• There is a point at which terror may turn to madness; and madness incites to action. (1)
• We will watch the master mind of the circus and his associates in counsel and action. (21)
• He was for action at any cost, with all the forces he could gather, and without delays. (10)
• Now, she plucked at him to abstain from his action, but he held the phial to the flower. (10)
• Is it, then, kind to permit him to wake by the natural action of his own physical energies? (7)
• It was necessary for me to ease it of some burdens, and you regarded that action as a sin. (12)
• The determination of the resistance of bricks to frost and weather action is quite simple. (17)
• He even went so far as to find the only hope of salvation in the action of the Independents. (14)
• In the smaller cities he must needs exercise his ingenuity to prevent the action of the law. (21)
• The two parties are so evenly balanced that the action of this class is of supreme importance. (14)
• All the rest to come was mere business matter of the conflict, scarcely calling for a plan of action. (10)
• For all that, she awoke, starting up in the first cold circle of twilight, her heart in violent action. (10)
• The anguish through which action had just hurried her, now fell with a conscious weight upon her heart. (10)
• For many years he has not been known to vary his route nor to introduce a single innovation into his action. (1)
• Her head wore a close hood, disclosing a fringe of grey locks, owlish to see about features hooked for action. (10)
• Then we saw him following a man and a flock of geese, and imitating the action of the man with his green wand. (10)
• Let then our joy be in war: in uncompromising Action, which need not be the less a sagacious conduct of the war . (10)
• Whitwell laughed with a pleasure in his satire which gave the monuments in his lower jaw a rather sinister action. (9)
• Yet the irritation of action narrowed Laura more than it did Vittoria; fevered her and distracted her sympathies. (10)
• Her action was too decided for him to follow her up under the observation of the inn windows and a staring street. (10)
• The composite of individual opinions, which we call public opinion, must express itself in action to be effective. (16)
• Its music shows much dramatic force, and goes far to redeem those scenes in the libretto that are lacking in action. (3)
• He did respect her character: a character angular as her features were, and similarly harmonious, splendid in action. (10)
• The action was deeper revelation of his feeling than any expostulation, and the young people watched it rather aghast. (8)
• He had the agile grace of a leopard; his waistcoat reminded me of one; he was like a piece of machinery in free action. (10)
• He was getting to those years when a man of action dislikes interruption of the grooves into which his activity has fallen. (8)
• Why did neither the one nor the other display and bring into action the whole forces they could have had at their disposal? (10)
• Yet painful, even terrible in its demand for action, it did not waver, but shone like a star behind the dark and heavy clouds. (8)
• The anecdote offers an illustration of character, or records a moment of action; the novella embodies a drama and develops a type. (9)
• In this article, which has not been reprinted, Lowell considers briefly the possibility of disunion through the action of the South. (14)
• The mortar on copings is loosened by this action, and on chimney tops, where heat and gases also help, the brickwork soon breaks down. (17)
• He saw in it just that stupid action of a whole body of fanatics combined to precipitate the devotion of a precious thing to extinction. (10)
• Plumbing fixtures are broken, pipes are clogged, and joints made to leak through the corroding action of strong acids poured down the pipes. (17)
• The maid lengthened her upper lip and beat her dress down smooth: signs of the apprehension of a crisis and of the getting ready for action. (10)
• Thus, in the Greek tragedy we find the principal features of the modern opera—scenery, dramatic action, solo and choral singing, the orchestra. (3)
• The hair was brushed from her temples, leaving one of those fine reckless outlines which the action of driving, and the pace, admirably set off. (10)
• The idea in me was that Parliament lifted me nearer to Ottilia, and would prompt me to resolute action, out of his tangle of glittering cobwebs. (10)
• He walked to where the strenuous blue lake, finding outlet, propels a shoulder, like a bright-muscled athlete in action, and makes the Rhone-stream. (10)
• At all other points the action had already ended with a repulse of the Confederate attack; with the cessation of this cannonade the silence was absolute. (1)

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