How to Use act out in a Sentence

act out

verb

• Some embrace the chance to act out while others just want to party.
  — Chris Thilk, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2018
• Parkinson's often comes with sleep disturbances, and acting out dreams can be an early warning sign.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 31 July 2018
• According to court documents, the defense claimed the suspect was mentally ill and had acted out of boredom.
  — Josef Federman, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• It is felt that comedians are able to convert their rage from physical to verbal assault and that for many their comic routines are a form of acting out.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
• The first season seemed to be well received, and at the very least, Sherman-Palladino’s writing is always fun to hear acted out.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2018
• At the time, a social worker, foster parents and therapist pigeonholed the child, known then as Christina, as a troubled, pubescent girl who acted out for attention.
  — Samantha Young, sacbee, 2 July 2018
• In the Tuesday evening incident, police said the officers involved were acting out of self-defense, though several witnesses at the scene dispute this.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
• Robert Bowers might have acted out in hatred of Jewish values and derangement against Jewish conspiracies, but his evil must not be explained away.
  — Dani Dayan, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
• The 6-year-old who acted out on the school bus wasn't alone.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
• And if there are no nouns, then what is acting out the verbs?
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
• Take your rage, and paint/draw/paste/act out/write/sing/film it.
  — The Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• In the video, the band don breastplates and gold leaf crowns to act out Shakespeare.
  — Audra Heinrichs, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Good News: All that the Lord hopes of his followers is to act out of kindness and love.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 26 May 2022
• So if your dog is acting out, start by trying to find the root cause.
  — Alexandra Gekas, Woman's Day, 25 Feb. 2019
• Hsu had been chosen to act out a fake lemonade ad in front of her school.
  — CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• For you as a parent in real life, what were those scenes like to act out?
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• But first, the children act out the story of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.
  — al, 21 Dec. 2022
• The game involves guessing words that are acted out one by one to form a phrase.
  — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all — just be busy that day.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all – just, be busy that day.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
• If Brown acts out, the Patriots can just release him and move on.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The series has already asked him to play over 20 years of age ranges and act out one of the most gut-wrenching deathbed scenes of the last decade.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 July 2020
• Still, Jaymes acted out at home and at school, and continued to do so for years.
  — Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2020
• To play, spin the wheel, move the corresponding number of spaces on the board, then draw a card with a clue to act out.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
• The whole point is to for people not to be influenced, but instead to act out of their own free will.
  — The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• But what seems to happen is there’s a trigger, a loss of some type, which begins the acting out.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 July 2023
• Ask your kid to keep quiet but to use their face, their body and their movements to act out an emotion.
  — Erica Pearson, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• Ryan said Sally should act out a climax in a public place.
  — cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• Vestager is not acting out of hatred for the U.S., as former President Trump once accused her of.
  — Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• One of these cold bodies was behind the shopping center bombing that opened the season — not an ideologically motivated act of terrorism, but a deadly form of acting out by a son against his father.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024