How to use "act" in a sentence

While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it

It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced

We must act

We must act quickly.

'But you do act strangely sometimes

She begins to act.

The two stand-ins begin to act

Somehow, the act of giving away his clothes would be even sadder and more final than watching his casket being lowered into the ground.

The opening number was followed by a first-rate magic act in front of the drawn curtains

"In the middle of dinner, I might be seized by a desperate need to dash over here and act like a producer."

He has a stage act

It's a brilliant act

"I take my act to Lake Tahoe a few weeks every winter," Billy said

So I worked up this act built around hypnotism

I do some comedy lines in the act, and I use the recorder to develop new material, correct problems with my timing."

"Well," Elliot said, "I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice

She's a woman, and women act in that silly way

If I discover that he has betrayed the Brotherhood, I'll have to act.'

I must act immediately.'

But our gender is made by our society As we grow, society teaches us how to act like women

Women, said Simone, are always described as "The Other" - she means that women do not act like men, and, because of this, men believe that women are not as important as them.