How to Use act out in a Sentence

act out

verb

• 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
• So the kids write their term papers and throw their tame ragers, while the parents claim the right to act out.
  — Ben Falcone, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• 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
• Some embrace the chance to act out while others just want to party.
  — Chris Thilk, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2018
• 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
• The problem is there’s not enough headlining acts out there.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• Instead, only two acts out of the 10 that perform each night are chosen to go through to the finale.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Jan. 2019
• The mayor may have been acting out of an abundance of caution.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 17 July 2019
• That will lead us to act out of alignment with our values and what’s best for ourselves and those who would be our clients.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The on-screen/off-screen besties acted out a scene from the Disney film, in between filming scenes for Stranger Things 3.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 26 July 2019
• The result is a crowd of people glued to the screens, at once hypnotized and acting out the A.D.H.D. of the digital age.
  — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 4 May 2018
• Our in-car chefs danced up and down the aisle to holiday music, acting out scenes from The Polar Express as clips were read over the speaker.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2024
• The job gives Charles a temporary purpose, as well as an excuse to clumsily act out various vintage spy movie fantasies.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025