414 examples of act like in sentences

And the broker did go into the board, and did act like an insane man, and PHYSKE and divers other persons did retain their shekels.

In swimming, the fins enable fishes to preserve their upright position, especially those of the belly, which act like two feet.

Before adolescence a good many girls act like tom-boys, and are distinguishable externally from boys only by their clothes.

We know her husband was always trying to bring her back to be a woman, or at any rate to get her to act like one, may she not have been hoping to get him to be like a beast himself or to act like one?

Brown, don't act like that!

She took her in her arms, exclaiming, 'Catherine, we are women, but we must act like men.'

"So long as I act like a lady, I'm a-gonna be treated like one, and I'll break the neck of the man who acts different, and you can stick a pin in that, you dirty-mouthed beast!" Muttering profanely true to form, the aforementioned beast essayed to rise.

If you have not considered these things, do not approach philosophy: do not act like children, at one time a philosopher, then a tax collector, then a rhetorician, then a procurator (officer) of Cæsar.

It is that we are stricken with respectful admiration that people with titles should act like ordinary decent human beings.

He act like a man believe himself the only god in the world when he in no danger, but when he get in danger he act like he afraid he got to meet some other god!"

These rollers are put into slow revolution, and the coal which is deposited at the mouth of the furnace is gradually carried forward by the motion of the chains, which act like an endless web.

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We may act like cowards, unworthy, ungrateful, ignorant; but the Truth will remain, Jacqueline.

Johnson's periods act like a lever of the third kind,the power applied always exceeds the weight raised; while the terse, laconic style of later writers is eminently a lever on the first principle, and gives the mind the utmost purchase on the subject in hand.

Oh, I know, you can act like anybody else; laugh and dance and talk nonsense and make a person forget sometimes.

He shouted at her, "A beggar woman must, I suppose, act like a village sow, and will not go away although told to.

Anger, then, was like the sword of justice, keen, but innocent and righteous: it did not act like fury, then call itself zeal.

Our chiefs can now no longer enjoy the sweet pleasure of wandering alone by moonlight in search of their mistresses: but let us banish sorrow from our hearts: since we are at war, we must think and act like the natives of Fiji, who first taught us this destructive art.

"I know what you think of us corsairsbut an officer in an honorable service should hesitate long before he tempts a man to do an act like this.

Do not make that gesture, but listen to me calmly; do not act like an automaton, pulled by the same wires that moved our grandfathers and our ancestors.

You act like a silly fool over this model of yours.

"Mercy, Jules, I did not mean that you should act like a three-year-old baby.

Shakespeare never gives up in the last act like most dramatists.

Mubarak, having lost all patience, replied, with anger, "Do not act like a boy; now, in an instant, matters will change dreadfully; do you think Maliki Sadik far off, that you disregard his injunctions?

Compare the colloquial English, "You act like sixty.

414 examples of  act like  in sentences