6 sentences with 'acted'

Example sentences and phrases with the word acted and other words derived from it.

« Greek drama was the first time human beings acted out stories to entertain, and sometimes to inform, their audiences. »
« The Centurial Assembly voted for consuls each year, declared war and peace, and acted as a court of appeal in legal cases involving the death penalty. It could also propose legislation, but the Senate had to approve it for it to become law. »
« From 1923 to 1930, a general named Primo de Rivera acted as a virtual dictator (with the support of the king) trying to drag Spain into the 20th century by building dams, roads and sewers. »
« In return for the accommodation, the student helped to look after Stephen Hawking and the children and acted as secretary and porter for various tasks. The system worked well, although, as Hawking said, "it was difficult for a student to continue to feel reverence for his teacher after he had helped him to the toilet". »
« The razor blade placed in the third part of the pyramid's height suffered the action of this dehydrating energy that acted on the intercrystalline spaces of the edge and expelled the molecular dipoles of water, which caused the loss of the edge. »
« In Aristotelian physiology the human brain acted as a coolant of the organism and the heart was the organic seat of the affections. »
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