How to Use act out in a Sentence

act out

verb

• And kids act out the more parents take their phone out during family time.
  — Marshall Weiss, Jewish Journal, 11 Apr. 2018
• Explain to your children that sometimes a person who acts out is feeling alone or afraid.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Even with their foster daughter acting out, there's no way Beth and Randall would turn her away.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Mar. 2018
• Letting your emotions rule and acting out of instinct will tempt you when patience is required to avoid a costly mistake.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• The trial ended with two deadlocked juries, unable to agree on whether the brothers were guilty of murder or acted out of fear.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• Her 21-month-old daughter, Jasmine, started acting out.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2018
• The Police Department contends the gunman acted out of fear and self-defense, the statement says, which led him to pull the trigger.
  — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• Police are not yet certain if the resident’s symptoms were related to the substance, and acted out of caution, Bonney said.
  — Ben Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Bracamontes has acted out throughout the trial, cursing at the families and jurors and threatening to kill more officers.
  — Sam Stanton, sacbee, 27 Mar. 2018
• After the unexpected Jewish guests arrive by train, their slow but steady march to town imbues the film with a palpable sense of dread, and the residents act out in surprising ways.
  — David Lewis, kansascity, 5 Apr. 2018
• Interpretive dancers acted out the songs, often performing inside a rectangular box with transparent walls that spent a good part of the set suspended from the ceiling.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2018
• The report adds that the suspect acted out while deputies attempted to take him to the St. John's County Jail by not putting his legs into the patrol car.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
• In the early minutes of the episode, Beth reveals to Randall that Deja has been acting out due to her mother releasing all parental rights to Deja.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Country Living, 14 Mar. 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
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024