How to Use acting in a Sentence

acting

1 of 2 noun

• Her acting is unusually good in this film.
• So much of acting is just waiting for the moment to come to you.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2023
• The acting is bluff and hearty, but the real stars are the sunflowers.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• How did the acting of it surprise you throughout the process?
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• He’s also flexed his acting skills in the new White Men Can’t Jump, a reboot of the 1992 film.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
• Yes, sometimes the acting might leave... a bit to be desired.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
• By the looks of it, their onscreen chemistry wasn’t just great acting.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2023
• Maybe this is a reminder that all awards shows should drop the genres and just go with best acting.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• Despite the strong acting, through, the pacing seems a little off.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Over there, a lot of the acting was very big and grandiose because soap operas are so prevalent.
  — William Earl, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• In it, the actor wore a 1964 t-shirt with a photo of himself in his early acting days.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024
• But the joys of acting were not lost on Margolis either.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
• In 2021, the Gothams decided the awards for acting would no longer be defined by gender.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• With acting, someone has to put you in a project, but a writer can just go make something right now.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2023
• This kind of acting can go south, the eyebrows dancing while the face remains strangely still.
  — Vulture, 4 May 2023
• As big as her characters can be, her acting grounds them.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• The really big trick to phone acting is not to look at the person who’s standing in to read the lines that are supposed to be on the other end.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• How has being a mom shifted your passion for acting, or has it?
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• In addition to their off-the-charts chemistry on screen, Buono notes that the pair had two very different acting styles.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
• Most of your earlier acting was in comedic or more glamorous roles.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• Read on for the Harper’s Bazaar Icon’s thoughts on acting, resistance, and exile.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
• But again, that’s where my acting started, so my heart will always be with theater.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• And American acting was like the same piece of furniture, a bit more funky, but real.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• From her late 40s through her 50s, Foster barely did any acting.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2024
• Since the Academy can be more cinephile-friendly in its picks than the precursors, fans held out hope for a stray acting nod or two.
  — Vulture, 23 Jan. 2024
• But if the structure is flawed, the acting and characterization of the central trio are not.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• Her screen acting debut came in 1950s The Goldbergs, and her breakthrough role quickly followed.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
• So those were always two parallel paths in my life, music and acting.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• Here, one woman (Katherine Henly, tireless in a role with equal demands on her voice and acting skills) is whisked from scene to scene, like a latter-day Wozzeck.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• But acting styles and cultural definitions of masculinity change with the decades, and the archetype of the hostile, mercurial acting artiste that Brando birthed appears to be dying out.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024

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acting

2 of 2 adjective

• The college's acting president will be replaced with a permanent one next fall.
• One is on top of the fashion world, the other the acting scene.
  — Laura Lane, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• Carrère had agreed to take a small acting role in the movie, which would star Ben Whishaw.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• If there were an award for most acting, these guys would rate high.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2022
• Murphy's first acting role in the late 1990s turned into his big break.
  — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2022
• The Kristine Carlson Story, which marks the star's first acting project in five years.
  — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Pendley, a lawyer, became acting head of the BLM in late July.
  — Mike Spies, ProPublica, 20 Sep. 2019
• He's also appeared in Mozart in the Jungle and had his first major acting role in 2006.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
• Now 23, Woods is making her acting debut in the indie film Goldie.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2020
• What was the first acting role that really challenged you?
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 June 2022
• Kotsur is the first deaf actor to be nominated and win a sole acting prize at the SAG Awards.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022
• What was the journey to this end point like for you from an acting and emotional standpoint?
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• But the actress was so much more than a Kansas farm girl in a blue gingham dress, and her acting range reached far beyond the land of Oz.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The son of Russian immigrants, Adler got his first acting role in the Yiddish theater at age 5 and went on to play Hitler.
  — Lior Zaltzman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• This led to a last-minute audition for Ludacris, who took on his first major acting role in the Fast sequel.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Meghan Markle may be better known as the Duchess of Sussex these days, but her acting career isn't too far behind her.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 July 2019
• Maggie Smith Dame Maggie Smith has the second-most acting wins of any actress.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
• This will be by far Kardashian's biggest acting role to date.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
• Nell Sutton makes her acting debut as the younger version of Marie-Laure.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022
• For now, the young brothers said, getting more acting work is the priority.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2022
• Amsterdam is not the first acting role for the 11-time Grammy Award winner.
  — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
• Here are some early thoughts about how the acting categories are shaping up.
  — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• But as acting mayor, she was chosen to serve the remainder of Moscone’s term and would go on to win two mayoral elections.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Both Baillio and Cannon had sweet words for Cabello and her first acting role.
  — Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Greenberg, however, is quick to distance himself from the dance and acting worlds.
  — Stephanie Sporn, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• Joey Bada$$ grabbed the attention of the acting world starring as Leon in the popular Mr. Robot series.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 6 June 2019
• This isn't the first time she's tried a completely different hairstyle for an acting role.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 3 June 2022
• Jackie Aprile was named acting boss, much to the chagrin of Junior Soprano.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
• My sketching is no good anymore, my dancing never was good and acting is getting tougher to do.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 3 June 2022
• From her television debut to a dive into the world of Ryan Murphy, keep scrolling for every acting role the Kim Kardashian has held in the past.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024