do something

idiom

: to take some sort of action to help a situation

Don't just stand there: do something!

Examples of do something in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There was the invasion, the election deniers, and a leader provoking his audience to do something. —Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025

And after sitting around for 48 hours on their beach weaving palm fronds and not doing a lot else, the tribe was probably bursting to do something — anything. —Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025

Staff is looking at other cities and even language at the state level to see what’s currently available and decide if Overland Park wants to do something different. —Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025

Thanks for supporting our show, to care enough to do something about it, to make your voices heard so that mine could be heard. —Edward Segarra, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025