1. Acting
Acting on your advice, I've decided to exercise more regularly.
It's extremely fast-acting.
It seems like that she wasn't acting back then; they were her real feelings.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
When Kate played a minor part in a movie, her acting was criticized.
Mr Jones will be acting as Head of the HR department until this vacancy is filled.
If you really have grounds for acting the way you did, then please tell me.
Her nature takes more kindly to acting than to any other kind of job.
There's no sense acting all triumphant like a conquering hero over such a minor thing.
My microwave is acting up. I think I'd rather get a new one than repair this one.
That's just a shot in the dark. How do you think you'll succeed by just acting on the spur of the moment like that?
Being "really busy" does not mean running around and acting like you don't have time for anyone or anything.
It was mismanagement of the company's affairs by the acting director.
Lately you see more young couples making out at the train station ticket gates acting as though nobody in the world existed.
The businessman is trying to keep his people on the go by keeping a stiff upper lip, but they are just acting like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.
2. Action
Action!
AIDS can be stopped only if every person decides to take action against it.
I'd stop worrying about it and take some action. The anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face.
A man who asks his wife's permission before taking any action except breathing is a henpecked husband.
Notice how the hero in an action flick never seems to run out of ammo?
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
The "predicate" is that part that shows the action in the sentence. In Japanese it would be the part that ends in "da", "suru", etc.
Linda's quick action probably saved the boy's life
Definition if you take legal action against someone, you start a case in a court of law because you want to prove that they have done something wrong
Act now! he said, and in addition to his obvious meaning, he hinted that there were number of other important reasons why immediate action was needed.
When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.
The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.
I move that these proposals be approved, and that action be taken as soon as possible.
Although many pay lip service to the idea of affirmative action, in reality, very few minorities get hired.
3. activity
economic activity
Exporting is a commercial activity which transcends borders.
Depression is a period marked by slackening of business activity, widespread unemployment, falling prices, and wages, etc.
Positron Emission Tomography uses a radioactive tracer to visualize metabolic activity within the human body.
Activity keeps the mind from rusting.
Parliamentary activity has become a political tug of war between the ruling and opposition parties over the issue.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
The work of art, I decided, was the final product of human activity, and the final justification for all the misery, the endless toil and the frustrated strivings of humanity.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Because they had not achieved complete success they gave more scope for the activity of my imagination.
1. Because political activity is not my interest. / 2. As you can see, his brain activity is practically zero.
Rina is in the home economics club. Her main activity is dressmaking.
Especially in northern China, wrapping and eating dumplings has become an important activity for happily spending New Year's Eve in many households.
The sun is currently in a period of low activity but even so large sunspots occasionally appear.
Any activity you need to accomplish will take more time than you have.
4. running
He began running.
After running up the hill, I was completely out of breath.
Today I'm shopping in town as well as running an errand for my grandmother.
It's a lot less likely for a Macintosh computer to have a virus than a computer running Windows.
The ambulance went out of control and came close to running over a pedestrian.
I've heard about it. Your parents disappeared, running out on their debt didn't they?
I've gotten much fitter, sleeker, and sexier thanks to all this running from the cops.
Salmonella outbreaks blemished spinach importers' reputation for running clean factories.
You shouldn't sleep with a coal stove on because it releases a very toxic gas called carbon monoxide. Sleeping with a coal stove running may result in death.
I don't like running down members of the staff, but he's the rudest man I've met.
Since the favorite and his rival were running against each other a dark horse like him was able to pull out in front.
I ran. I devoted my entire life to running to a flower that had already wilted when I reached it.
Alain tells me that it doesn't work, so I'm running tests to know if it works.
It must be terribly difficult, running her household on her own after divorcing.
After rounding the Dragon's Tooth, the wind was on our side, and we were flying. It felt like we were running twice as fast.
5. Operation
It's a cloak-and-dagger operation.
The operation of a computer keyboard requires less effort than that of a manual typewriter.
He said to himself, "Will this operation result in success?"
My father has been in good shape since his operation.
I'm glad to hear that your sister is out of danger after her operation.
While a brain operation is being performed, both doctors and nurses must handle the patient with kid gloves and yet with all speed practical.
It's a fiddle going to and fro between the keyboard and mouse so are there shortcuts to allow operation using only the keyboard?
The operation was really touch and go there for awhile but the doctor thinks he'll pull through.
An operation on his throat helped him recover from the pneumonia, but it left him without his voice.
We had the the procedures done yesterday but unfortunately, the machine won't be in operation until the engine is replaced.
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.
Whether he has the operation depends upon the availability of the organ.
In the "Mafia" tradition of organized crime, any member who discloses its operation is sure to be rubbed out.
These events occurred in the name of a peace-keeping operation.
But she had agreed to find The Smoke so that she could have the operation to become pretty.