How to Use act out in a Sentence

act out

verb
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  • The adults in charge ignored my acting out, for the most part.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017
  • While there, Young continued to act out, ditching school and sneaking drinks.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2017
  • One, obviously, acts out on those urges in a much more extreme way than the other person.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Those concerns faded upon watching the murderer act out in court.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
  • These men act out their crimes in reenactments, leading to what’s almost an exorcism for both the killer and the survivors.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • McEntire had answered a 911 call from the home after an angry Rose acted out.
    — Darrell Smith, sacbee, 27 Sep. 2017
  • In one strip, the kids act out the horrible roar of an atomic bomb, and Snoopy has frequent aerial battles with the Red Baron.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Running Away McDonald says, just like children, dogs will act out and attempt to run away from home, even plotting their plan to do so.
    — Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2017
  • More teachers are viewing academic or behavioral issues through a trauma lens, to see if there is a root problem that is causing children to withdraw or to act out.
    — Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Children who are anxious may act out, have temper tantrums, or change their sleeping patterns, appetites, behavior, or moods, says Dr. Kumar.
    — Tamekia Reece, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Most damaging, however, was the lower courts’ finding that Trump acted out of anti-Islamic bias.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Signing free-agent third baseman Alex Bregman would change the narrative, but require them to act out of character and block a younger player, Jace Jung.
    — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • That’s an unsettling reality to dwell in for a full season of television—a realm not of monsters but humans, where a few act out terribly for disturbingly intangible reasons.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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

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