piece of action
Example Sentences
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There were few real goalscoring opportunities and Italy’s best chance of the match came with the last piece of action of the first half as Bryan Cristante headed a corner onto the near post.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
As a sustained piece of action choreography, then, “Athena” is frequently staggering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
But when we got to that scene in the cutting room, it did feel as though it could work as a single 8½-minute uninterrupted piece of action.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2021
Let’s grade it on a curve: it was a technically complex piece of action, what with the five people wielding bullwhips and swords in tight spaces and all.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2015
And Zeno professed to illustrate this by a piece of action; for when he stretched out his fingers, and showed the palm of his hand, “Perception,” said he, “is a thing like this.”
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
