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How to use in the act of in a sentence

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Moreover, it is almost impossible to get dumpers fined, because the person must be caught in the act of dumping.
Since police are unlikely to raid a baile itself, he's unlikely to be caught in the act of singing the song.
In Mine de Pompadour at Her Toilette the marquise is shown in the act of performing her toilette.
This figure is usually interpreted as a self-portrait of van Eyck in the act of creating the very image before our eyes.
A little further along, at 18m, is a substantial stone statue of a figure frozen in the act of hurling a spear, or more likely a trident.
Normally the epitome of composure, the midfielder appeared to stub his toe in the act of shooting and he was again untroubled.
It put me in the act of doing and realizing that God is the doer and nothing is in my hands.
Do not look at, talk to, pet, feed, play or let out your dog or cat when it is in the act of misbehaving.
The death penalty was prescribed for anyone caught in the act of pillage during a raid.
The viewer is irresistibly embroiled in the act of creation, and thereby marked forever with the power of his gorgeous creations.
It is ceremonially used in the act of crowning a King, Queen or other Sovereign.
Well Scanlon was in the act of dismounting when the first shot was fired at Kennedy, and Scanlon became, well, flurried, and fell to his knees.
They were acting the fool and I just caught them in the act of acting the fool.
He notes that Hamilton often caught his sellers in the act of selling rather than crying their goods.
Leading from the front, as he stepped ashore and in the act of drawing his sword, grapeshot shattered his right elbow.
A good puzzle game tests logic, reflexes and wit in the act of problem solving.
At this point, a guy suddenly came along the pathway around the bend, and caught me in the act of arguing with the cat.
All propaganda is a sophisticated form of deception and she had been caught in the act of misdirecting the electorate.
I followed her gaze to see Carter, who looked like he had been caught in the act of doing something wrong.
Then, in 1993, she was caught in the act of torching a neighbor's home in Ajo, Arizona, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At the moment of our observing the ill-boding sign, a pig was in the act of entering the portals.
The red devil, if observed by some old, wise person, would have been said to be in the act of practicing his art.
As Spike uttered this order, his foot was on the plank-sheer of the bulwarks, in the act of passing to the wharf again.
If one watches a horse or cow in the act of swallowing, the rather deliberate progress of this wave down the neck can be followed.
Retaining their military habits, they were usually seen in the act of justing together, or in similar warlike employments.
It was at first thought that we had before us an echinoderm in the act of transformation.
In endothermic compounds energy, in some form, has been taken up in the act of formation of the compound.
It was in this mood that he came upon Miss Jim, who was in the act of disentangling a long lace scarf from her buggy whip.
The whale, however, was lost, in consequence of cutting the line in the act of lancing him.
He undertook to apply the laryngoscope to the larynx in the act of singing.
This was succeeded by a more ambitiously designed stamp showing an evzone or light infantryman in the act of firing.
And then as I was in the act of mounting Fatima it occurred to me he could no doubt direct me.
It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the nemean Lion.
McCay paused in the act of lighting his cigar, as one smitten with a great thought.
I was in the act of following him into the room, when Reuben plucked at my sleeve to detain me.
Even worse, in high priestly sacrilege, he encouraged Jerry to attack a megapode hen in the act of laying.
Has the reader ever seen a Popish priest in the act of making, or metamorphosing bread and water into flesh and blood?
This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.
A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act of sending it down on deck.
Orpheus is holding an instrument, which appears to be a rebab, against his chin, in the act of bowing and stopping the strings.
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