in the act
In the process of doing something. For example, The police caught the robber in the act, or I was in the act of closing the window. [Second half of 1600s]
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How to use in the act in a sentence
The questions begin to arise from his in-the-act sex photographs, sometimes with multiple partners.
I feel so stuck still here, and always caught-in-the-act like that photo.
The Promise of Air | Algernon Blackwood
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