How to Use where the action is in a Sentence
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Our deals page is where the action is.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
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If rock-bottom prices are your thing, this is where the action is.
—Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2022
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The green media sites that have juice focus on where the action is.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2013
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Are they driven by duty, or merely a need to be where the action is?
—Elaina Patton, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
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Both Clare and the cover offer some clues as to where the action is heading.
—EW.com, 20 June 2024
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But for them, fintech is where the action is – over 80% of their revenue comes from payments.
—Alex Lazarow, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
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The spirit hovers and observes and always seems to know where the action is; nothing escapes its view.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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The young man is resentful at being stuck on some nowhere planet rather than being where the action is on Coruscant.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 July 2024
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As much as some complain that this indie slant will doom the Oscars to low ratings without enough blockbuster support, this is where the action is.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2025
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And where that late-game prowess could really shine is in the playoffs, where the action is constantly at a make-or-break intensity.
—Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
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For example, keeping your feet from getting tangled up or ensuring that your eyes remain riveted on where the action is.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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But, according to Daggers, the capital’s new development sector is where the action is.
—Christopher Cameron, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
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In a sense, the hot box atmosphere of indoor distance running is a perfect counterpoint to the road marathon, where the action is diluted over two hours and 26 miles.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2022
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Ro himself is an utter charmer who carries the novel past its stutter-start opening, which takes us to Bermuda and London before landing where the action is.
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
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Creativity helped change the perception of this place, and enticed people to move here from New York and all over the world, because suddenly this was where the action is.
—Luke Leitch, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2022
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Just like a television station, both auction houses have added control rooms filled with producers and directors who watch every camera angle and monitor where the action is in the salesroom.
—Carol Vogel, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
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Hopper also shows us various light sources, including a fragment of the movie screen, where the action is no doubt rushing inexorably toward a Hollywood climax.
—Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
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The lower floor is where the analysts toil; entry to the upper floor, where the action is, is by the sort of fancy key that might have been used to open an executive washroom in 1895.
—Robert Lloyd, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2025
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Far from seeing Los Angeles as some kind of political backwater, national political figures are looking to take their talents where the action is.
—Raphael J. Sonenshein, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
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Each game this year features two three-minute stoppages that are ostensibly designed to give players some relief from the summer heat, but broadcasters have capitalized on that time in a sport where the action is otherwise continuous.
—Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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Miami is also closer to Cape Canaveral, where the action is for Blue Origin's rocket and lunar lander activities.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
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Because the sun lacks a solid surface, the corona is where the action is; exploring this magnetically intense region up close can help scientists better understand solar outbursts that can interfere with life here on Earth.
—Fox News, 15 Dec. 2021
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