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

And the Philippous had only 10 prop doors for McCarthy to break through, a crucial piece of action that had to go off smoothly midway through the shot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

There are different levels of reverberation, depending on how intimate we are to the piece of action.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2015

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 Yonge, Charles Duke