Synonym: acting, performing, playacting, playing. Similar words: exacting, extracting, refracting telescope, directing, reflecting, constructing, reflecting telescope, action. Meaning: ['æktɪŋ] 
n. the performance of a part or role in a drama. adj. serving temporarily especially as a substitute.
n. the performance of a part or role in a drama. adj. serving temporarily especially as a substitute. 
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151. He always seems to be acting.
152. I was just acting on instructions.
153. I stumbled into acting when I left college.
154. He eventually found his way into acting.
155. The aforementioned was/were acting suspiciously.
156. She is acting on the advice of her lawyers.
157. He's not really angry he's just acting .
158. The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script.
159. He can sometimes sound a bit pompous when he talks about acting.
160. I've always enjoyed acting, but I'd like to have a stab at directing one day.
161. During his acting career, he has played all Shakespeare's great tragic heroes.
162. She did a lot of acting when she was at college.
163. His acting stinks but he looks good,[sentencedict.com] so he's offered lots of movie roles.
164. The defendant explained that he had been acting under coercion.
165. Acting on impulse, he picked up the keys and slipped them into his pocket.
166. He was acting from the highest motives when he offered her money.
167. The drama course gives students a solid grounding in the basic techniques of acting.
168. Present tonight at the long-awaited opening of this film are a whole galaxy of stars from the acting and musical professions.
169. The film is a farrago of trite emotions, one-note acting and embarrassing lines.
170. Her parents were never pushy although they encouraged her acting ambitions from an early age.
171. It gave him his first taste of acting for the big screen.
172. The store detective had his eye on a group of boys who were acting suspiciously.
173. Concurrent with her acting career, Bron has managed to write two books of her own.
174. The two rivals were nevertheless united by the freemasonry of the acting profession.
175. Even though I've been acting for years[Sentencedict.com], I still get a thrill out of going on stage.
176. Hollywood directors have a marvellous pool of acting talent to draw from.
177. He was acting out his feelings of inferiority by being overly aggressive.
178. They were married a year after they first met, with two friends acting as witnesses.
179. Acting is very competitive - you've got to really push yourself if you want to succeed.
180. She had a perfectly sound reason for acting as she did.
More similar words: exacting, extracting, refracting telescope, directing, reflecting, constructing, reflecting telescope, action, active, tactic, tactile, didactic, faction, reaction, tactical, actively, fraction, inactive, in action, practise, activate, activist, factious, activity, reactive, practice, didactics, fractious, practiced, practical.