in the act (of doing something)

idiom

: in the process of doing something

When they arrived, I was just in the act of starting to make dinner.

Examples of in the act (of doing something) in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

It’s all arrayed in the quirky service of a story that’s as interested in the act of archiving as in the meaning of the archive: To collect, to hold, to interpret, Conley’s wonderfully curious robots seem to be saying, is inevitably to merge the subject into the self. —Trey Graham, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024

The police report, according to both outlets, states that the Japanese police cyber patrol caught Yamakawa in the act of taking orders. —Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024

Something in the act of writing, sending and waiting days or weeks for a reply, and in the physical and social challenges experienced by our daughter at a distance, is changing all of our personal operating systems. —Damien Cave, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024

There is artistry, too, of course, in the act of cooking pasta, coaxing them along a textural spectrum between toothsomeness and pliancy. —Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2024

This is not meant to be glib, or not really; there was true mastery in the act, utter focus and kinetic intuition. —Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024

Hawkins said active surveillance to catch crime tourists in the act was happening seven days a week in conjunction with other Valley police departments. —The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024

Scientists had never caught the volcanoes in the act—until a study published last year found new evidence among old images. —Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024

There is even grainy cell phone video that purports to catch Kry in the act. —Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024