How to Use in the act (of doing something) in a Sentence

in the act (of doing something)

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• The two then came up with a plan to catch him in the act.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
• Nearly half of shoplifters (48%) have been caught in the act.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
• But this is the first time scientists caught a star in the act.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
• There is even grainy cell phone video that purports to catch Kry in the act.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• Suman catches her in the act, and the two women chat about their grief.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 29 May 2024
• All of it was aimed at one thing: stopping a gunman in the act.
  — New York Times, 31 July 2022
• The women have been told that demons were to blame, until one man is caught in the act.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
• The oldest tree ever known was killed in the act of knowing.
  — Jared Farmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
• The clerk thanked the women for taking part in the act of charity.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Some leaders in the country have voiced support for those caught in the act.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Tonight’s biggest play of the game came when the Jazz cut the Wizards’ lead to six, and then Gay fouled a Kuzma in the act of a three.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• The following year, police caught a rapist in the act and sampled his DNA.
  — cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• The referees ruled Wood was in the act of shooting and awarded her two free throws.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
• Would her principal chase her around town trying to catch her in the act?
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Aug. 2023
• When police arrived, all four suspects were still in the act of robbing the store.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• For each of them, there’s an underlying sense of play in the act of getting dressed.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2023
• See photo of winged homeless man caught in the act of littering.
  — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• As the straight man in the act, Weissmuller performed classic dives from the ten-meter platform.
  — David O. Stewart, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
• The camera pans to Abu Hamdan, who is in the act of the ultimate British gesture: sipping a cup of tea.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• But no star has ever been caught in the act of gulping down a planet this way—until now.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• Scientists have wanted to catch these emitters in the act.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 3 Feb. 2023
• In this picture frozen in time from more than 300 million years ago, the two galaxies on the bottom right are caught in the act of merging.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• She was imprisoned for six months in 1923, having been caught in the act of mailing the offending items.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
• McMahon’s wife, Linda, and their adult children, Shane and Stephanie, took on various roles in the act, too.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Many undercover officers worked all night on the streets, hoping to catch the shooter in the act.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022
• Their elderly hosts, however, catch them in the act and have … other plans.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 31 Oct. 2022
• At one point, Jensen said, the police bureau deployed a series of overnight missions to attempt to catch burglars in the act.
  — oregonlive, 19 June 2022
• Drone footage captures the military in the act of burning down Let Htoke Taw village in the southern Sagaing region.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Unfortunately for Clark, an usher at the arena caught him in the act.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2022
• For these individuals, the value lies both in the act of drinking and in ownership itself.
  — Mark Littler, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024