in the very act of in a sentence

Examples

1. Instead, she has created a sort of memory play in which Salomon brings recollected scenes to life in the very act of painting them.
2. When Poussin catches Daphne in the very act of turning into a tree, it is with a rare tenderness that he tells how it was.
3. It is well-known that men were shot down in the very act of obeying the order, and their wagons and effects seized by their murderers.
4. He died of paralysis on the 3rd of April 1691 at Vevey, while in the very act of painting on the enamel a portrait of his faithful wife.
5. In the very act of my death, I recommend to you the love to the fatherland, and the observance to our religion, for it shall lead you to glory.
6. Thus he shortly after circumcised Timothy ( ), and he was in the very act of observing the Mosaic ritual when he was arrested at Jerusalem ( sqq . ) ."
7. Thus he shortly after circumcised Timothy ( ), and he was in the very act of observing the Mosaic ritual when he was arrested at Jerusalem ( sqq . ) }}
8. Sure that solving the decades-long mystery will save his job, Butts goes to Funderburke's land and catches him in the very act of burying his latest victim.
9. He is spending a good deal of time at City Hall and filming the mayor in the very act of renewing the city on state-of-the-art video equipment.
10. Its skeleton was found on a nest of eggs believed to belong to another species of dinosaur, suggesting that it had been killed and buried in sand in the very act of stealing some eggs.