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

Q: How do you use the word "active" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "active": Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results. Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Active Meaning

/ˈæk.tɪv/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjHaving the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

adjQuick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.

Sentence Examples

Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Staying physically active in later years can also keep you feeling younger.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

alive progressive operational

Antonyms:

passive inactive

CEFR Practice Quiz

The children remained ____ during the entire outdoor soccer match.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She stays ____ by going for a run every morning at sunrise.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin āctīv(us), from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. By surface analysis, act + -ive.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment." — 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"I think it should be upgraded to Visual BASIC, but I'm no good at that. So maybe someone here would like to take a crack at it. There are only 40 lines of active code, plus a few REMs. About 100 BASIC commands altogether." — 2006 December 24, David Williams, “satellite program”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet):

"Edge uses green text for comments. This makes it easier for you to quickly differentiate between active code and comments." — 2012, Chris Grover, “Triggering Actions”, in Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual, 3rd edition, Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 98:

""Alumni could become more active in giving guidance and leadership to students. They act as sort of a 'maturity governor' on fraternities," notes Ratliff, citing surveys suggesting that fraternity actives presume mistakenly that alumni want hazing […]" — 1989, The Alcalde, volume 78, number 2, page 11:

"Components are split into two broad segments: actives and passives. Active components like the vacuum tube and the transistor contain the power to generate and alter electrical signals." — 2013, David Manners, Hitchhikers' Guide to Electronics in the '90s, page 36:

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