How do you use the word "action" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "action": You insist upon our taking that course of action. You were careless in your action.

Action Meaning

/ˈækʃən̩/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe effort of performing or doing something.

nounSomething done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.

Sentence Examples

You insist upon our taking that course of action.

You were careless in your action.

The time has come for action if these beautiful animals are to survive.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

activity sue process

Antonyms:

inactivity

CEFR Practice Quiz

The rescue team took immediate ____ after hearing the distress call.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The movie was full of ____ and exciting car chases.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin āctum Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin āctiō Old French aucionbor. Middle English accioun English action From Middle English accioun, accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō(n) (“act of doing or making”), from āct(us) + action suffix -iō(n), perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. See also act, active. By surface analysis, act + -ion.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Spinola was hovering about the external fittings of the figure with unusual fussiness. When at length he released the left hand it seemed for an almost perceptible moment that the action hung. Then the arm descended and carried out the discard." — 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

"So saying he presented him with two actions of above two thousand livres each." — 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

"the Euripus of funds and actions" — 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

"The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon." — 2008, Duncan B. Forrester, Doug Gay, Worship and Liturgy in Context, scm Press, page 88:

"The protest was set up in less than three weeks by an ad hoc group called Act Up […] According to Kramer, Act Up will continue AIDS-related organizing, possibly including an action at an early June Washington, D.C., AIDS conference for scientists worldwide." — 1987 April 11, Kim Westheimer, “NY Protesters Rip FDA”, in Gay Community News, page 1:

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