How to Use caught in the act in a Sentence

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• Electrons just got caught in the act.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
• Nearly half of shoplifters (48%) have been caught in the act.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
• In episode 7, they were even caught in the act by Victor's mom.
  — refinery29.com, 16 June 2021
• Some leaders in the country have voiced support for those caught in the act.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• If caught in the act of learning, the punishment could be jail, fines, or even death.
  — Karida L. Brown, Essence, 21 May 2025
• But no star has ever been caught in the act of gulping down a planet this way—until now.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• These may very well be baby galaxies caught in the act of forming, growing.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
• While the bear wasn’t caught in the act, a wildlife official found eight cars with their doors wide open and signs of rummaging.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2021
• Management is defending itself and the thief caught in the act while punishing the victim.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
• Kids often love discovering their elf caught in the act of holiday hijinks, such as hiding in the snack drawer.
  — Apryl Duncan, Parents, 29 July 2024
• She was imprisoned for six months in 1923, having been caught in the act of mailing the offending items.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
• Images obtained by prosecutors reportedly show the pair caught in the act.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2022
• Also of note is that this information is not presented as an observation from the reporter; Sparks wasn’t caught in the act.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
• Though such orbits have been theorized and planet-forming discs in polar alignment have been spotted, no planet had ever been caught in the act—until now.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
• The charming canine, Barney, was caught in the act by his human, who uses the handle @mybestiebarney on TikTok.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Occasionally they get caught in the act, and have to make amends (almost always a minuscule proportion of revenues or profits).
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Employees are being caught in the act in part because these images often contain metadata revealing their fake origins.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
• The burglars were caught in the act; the Nixon administration tried to cover up the involvement of key White House aides.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• That loophole is needed so that the future can exert an overall pull on the present, without ever being caught in the act of doing it in any particular instance.
  — Zeeya Merali, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• The mystery persisted until 2011 when the culprit, a male pufferfish just five inches long, was finally caught in the act.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2013
• Jonathan Gerlach of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, is facing numerous charges after he was allegedly caught in the act.
  — Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
• Ironically, the first oviraptorosaur ever described—Oviraptor itself—was thought to have been caught in the act of a robbing a nest because it was found associated with eggs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2021
• Despite his good intentions, Brandlin was caught in the act while working in the middle of the night to refurbish the crosswalks and install the street signs, leading to a night in the Hawthorne Jail.
  — Jasmine Viel, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
• According to a new paper published in the Journal of Ethology, California ground squirrels have been caught in the act—many times over—of chasing, killing, and eating voles.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2024
• The dog — wagging its tail, furiously enjoying itself while breaking the laws of men — was caught in the act in a video posted by the Subway Creatures Instagram account.
  — Curbed, 30 Aug. 2022
• Prosecutors called the crime a robbery gone wrong, saying that Rose was caught in the act of burglarizing the home and decided to kill the couple rather than flee, according to The News Tribune.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• In 1991, Reubens was charged with public masturbation after he allegedly was caught in the act in a Sarasota, Florida, movie theater.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023