Sentence examples for act run from inspiring English sources

Flight-or-fight states involve a disposition to act (run, hit, bite, kill) and are coupled with strong negative emotions (fear, anger) and an upregulated body state (pounding heart, tense muscles).

In Angel, for example, Darryl McDaniels of hip-hop act Run DMC recounts being told that he's adopted: "Right then and there, the whole world stopped [makes sound of screeching brakes]." There's something lovely about that unaffected, spontaneous sound effect that was once enacted live, now living on in print as a stage direction.

His fighters took their positions and the final act ran its course.

In a production of nearly three hours, the second act runs only about 45 minutes.

In many ways, Cox was the typical American marathoner: a solo act, running at his own risk.

Vulnerability to attack from such states would restrict America's ability to act, runs the argument in Washington.

It is not a heritage act running through a hardened iconography; it's a good rush, but perverse, wriggly and hard to reduce.

And the Andean act runs out again in 2006.The preferences offered by the European Union expire next year, and are just as grudging.

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(According to Field, who argues that he is teaching "only form, not formula," the second act runs from page 30 to page 90).

Much to its present shame, even the Church of England got in on the act, running the Codrington plantation in Barbados.