How to Use act out in a Sentence

act out

verb

• Ryan said Sally should act out a climax in a public place.
  — cleveland.com, 12 July 2019
• The mayor may have been acting out of an abundance of caution.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 17 July 2019
• And kids may not know how to speak up about their feelings, but instead may act out with anger or irritability.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• Their conversations help Frazier with her anger, which caused her to act out and get expelled last school year.
  — al.com, 28 June 2019
• High temperatures are known to make people act out of character.
  — Sara Germano, WSJ, 30 June 2019
• Her preferences could be translated and acted out upon the world.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 July 2019
• But what is more distressing is when those kids stop crying and stop acting out, and just kind of sit there looking off into space.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 July 2019
• But a person acting out their grief on the anniversary of a loss should evoke our empathy rather than judgment.
  — Dear Abby, oregonlive.com, 8 July 2019
• Trust is built when partners feel secure that the other is acting out of genuine care, not obligation.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• For instance, a lover could act out of character and cause an explosive fight or a bad report comes to you in regards to one of your children.
  — Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
• Other parts of Eliza’s monologue were acted out by a violinist and the model Lily Cole.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 13 Sep. 2024
• And the claims against him were brought by SEALs who resented his leadership and were acting out of a vendetta against him.
  — David French, National Review, 3 July 2019
• Cardagena said his friend turned down the marijuana Monday around 6 a.m. and started acting out of character.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 17 July 2019
• Rue then proceeds to narrate an example of one such naughty scene, which is acted out on screen by animated versions of Styles and Tomlinson.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• During REM sleep, when a person is dreaming, most of the muscles in the body are paralyzed so dreams aren't acted out physically.
  — NBC News, 29 June 2019
• My children have had so much fun with them over the years, from playing with their very first Duplos to building imagined lands for their minifigures and acting out stories, to building the most complicated sets.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• All that time in his vile proximity serves as a challenge to recognize what’s right in front of you; not an antihero, not a misunderstood victim, not a bully who just needs a little parental guidance to stop acting out.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024