Sentence examples for putting on an act from inspiring English sources

She wears her shyness like a cameo; she isn't acting so much as putting on an act.

It's hard to tell how much of that is him putting on an act and how much of that is real, but either way, young Steven knows more about what people on the internet like than all the "social media gurus" two and three times his age put together.

If it's true that the movies no longer sustain stars, that leaves room for another kind of actor: as versatile as a travelling player, as bold as the Gypsy spirit in theatre, a cheerful pretender no longer pledged to the orthodoxy of the Actors Studio, but given over to the idea that acting is putting on an act and a voice as part of a game.

We're acting in a way, but we are not putting on an act.

Was he putting on an act?

"He was putting on an act.

Not to put on an act.

"But I don't put on an act for anyone.

You trying to put on an act just because Rick's here?

On visits, they had put on an act, but not any more.

At the casting calls, "I put on an act," he said, "but they want real people".