Example Sentences

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Whether it was an intended metaphor or not, the Kraken were enacting some payback on the visitors for what’s been a tortuous start of sorts to this regional showdown.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023

They were enacting a small subset of the clip’s dizzying array of activity, but the distractions from the music were far, far fewer on the SNL stage than they were in the video.

From Slate • May 22, 2018

By 1926, they were enacting “Pirates of Penzance” in his Madison Avenue townhouse, followed by years of performances in the spacious mansions of wealthy members.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2018

Shedding superlatives, I felt as though I were enacting a linguistic version of Coco Chanel’s dictum that before leaving the house a woman should remove one piece of jewelry.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

While these scenes were enacting in the city, the palace was shrouded in the deepest gloom.

From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by Vide, V. V.