act the part
Example Sentences
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“Oh yes,” I answered gamely, trying to act the part of my aunt.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2021
“He will look the part and will act the part, but I’m sure he’d rather not have the part.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2019
“You have to look the part, and act the part for President Trump,” one administration official said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2018
He, that was the first time I had seen him act the part, taking the first early steps of being Darius as opposed to what I had seen him be in “Menace II Society.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2017
In 1878, he started Chicago’s first black newspaper, the Conservator, and called blacks to action: “We are no longer slaves. We intend to act the part of free men.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
