How to use "action" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "action" in popular movie and book plots

  • The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—around the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.  - Liza of Lambeth
  • D’Argo is , and the crew move into action to save Crichton.  - Farscape
  • The action starts in 1918, with the defeat of the Tomainian army.  - The Great Dictator
  • He tells them that they should stop moping around and take whatever action is necessary to get their women.  - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • The action then shifts to the Dahl sector, where Seldon and Venabili rent rooms from a middle-class family.  - Prelude to Foundation
  • The Church owns many politicians and takes violent action against those who oppose it.  - Stranger in a Strange Land
  • With the arrival of summer, Badger visits Mole and Rat to take action over Toad's self-destructive obsession.  - The Wind in the Willows
  • Some other characters are close to an American president who fails to take action against the threat.  - The Forge of God
  • If in any of these scenarios Miller fails to take action soon enough, Kantaris escapes and the mission is aborted.  - Time Crisis (video game)
  • The German destroyer is unable to take evasive action and is sunk.  - U-571 (film)
  • Facing an economic crisis, Japan's ruling corporate cabal, led by Yamata, decides to take military action against theS.  - Debt of Honor
  • Stunts and complex physical action are largely absent, especially from daytime serials.  - Soap opera
  • It rotates, providing artificial gravity that is 992% as strong as Earth's gravity through the action of centrifugal force.  - Ringworld
  • The action takes place in two periods — World War II and the late 1990s, during the Internet boom and Asian financial crisis.  - Cryptonomicon
  • The Narrator introduces the action again: "Once Upon a Time.  - Into the Woods
  • Authorities, including the Prefect, are slow to accept that the situation is serious and quibble over the appropriate action to take.  - The Plague

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