Sentence examples for the act like from inspiring English sources

While I heard rumors about plans for increased police enforcement, getting caught in the act, like other police encounters, is still likely to be resolved with a few baht, the local currency, rather than official consequences.

"The act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker," Judge Vinson wrote.

"He peels the onion back a little more," said Ms. Davis, who came up with the "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" title.

In recent years we have witnessed one electoral dysfunction after another in jurisdictions not covered by the act, like Ohio and Miami-Dade County in Florida.

Others, invoking the "act like you have been there before" code, lamented that it had come to this: delirium accompanying a win over Utah.

Lately boys and even men have gotten into the act, like Brennan Blomgren, 17, from St . Paul Minn., who blogged about wanting to donate his hair and then gave a foot of his blond mop to Pantene Beautiful Lengths.

These include the PAS-like fold, which is the scaffold of the PAS [ 11, 12], GAF [ 13], and probably the CACHE [ 14] superfamilies, and the ACT-like fold, which is seen in ACT, ferredoxin and related ligand-binding domains [ 4, 15].

Avoid the "acts like", "behaves like" assumptions.

In this way, the denticles act like the dimples on a golf ball.

The interfacial contacts between the domains act like ball bearings to accommodate changes in quaternary structure.

The second-order term makes the snake act like a thin plate.