How to use "action" in a sentence

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever - it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action

This Nation is asking for action, and action now.

Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo

Action in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors

But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for un delayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action

Although Marius was a dreamer and not a man of action, he knew immediately that he had to save M

The barricade was stronger than it had been for the first assault, and the rebels were at their positions, guns loaded and ready for action

Moments later, an officer shouted a command and the cannon roared into action

The bed was properly made, and several science-fiction-movie action figures were posed on the deep headboard

Vivienne liked the action, noise, lights, and excitement of Las Vegas

The action figures had been knocked off the headboard

After so much talk about death, she needed a glimpse of movement, action, life; and although the Strip sometimes was grubby in the flat glare of the desert sun, the boulevard was always, day or night, bustling and filled with life.

Evidently, he wasn't carrying a gun, and he was impressed by the speed and ease with which his partner had been taken out of action.

With more than a million full-time residents, with more than twenty million tourists a year, and with a vast desert on which to sprawl, Vegas offered thousands of dark, quiet corners where two people on the run could safely stop to catch their breath and settle upon a course of action.

I'm not a natural-born man of action

"Surely you don't want to take such drastic action until you're positive Stryker actually is headed for Reno

We have to be ready to kill them or put them out of action some other way."

This was one of my early attempts to write a cross-genre novel mixing action, suspense, romance, and a touch of the paranormal

He promptly brought legal action against the studio, forcing us into arbitration

'Ah! I am glad you are taking action after what happened

'Always some good reason nowadays for every dirty action, isn't there?'

Machine guns are completely useless against them, and field-guns have been put out of action

The Ripley gunners had never been in action before

And where it met with water, or even mist or wet grass, a chemical action took place and it turned into a powder that sank slowly and made room for more.

These waited in a long line, ready for action, right across the mouth of the Thames, watching the Martian attack but powerless to prevent it.

As soon as I saw that escape was possible, my dream of action returned

We were very different people with different habits of thought and action, and those differences increased because we were living together in this dangerous place

The curate talked endlessly, and this prevented me from forming a plan of action.

I tried to work out a plan of action