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
It is a piece of action, or of activity, when he calls up these old recollections; and why should not that effort be given the value of a sort of drama on its own account?
From The Craft of Fiction by Lubbock, Percy
