acting up

Example Sentences

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I started acting up simply to keep myself occupied.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

I told her the camera is going to be constantly running, so when she’s acting up — and I wanted to open the film with that — she knew that was being recorded.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2024

Second, we can chalk some of Stamos’s apparent lack of passion about acting up to the fact that music — specifically, drumming — seems to be his true love.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Moody said the injury started acting up two weeks ago and he is “slowly working back into it.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2023

I thought my dyslexia was acting up until I realized she was writing in Ancient Greek.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan