Raw vegetables containing starch are not acted upon in the mouth and are digested afterwards only with great difficulty, while cooked vegetables are a most desirable article of diet.
Here, the food is acted upon by another element known as gastric juice, which is supplied by small glands found in the membrane of the stomach.
Madame de Bourgogne never forgave Chamillart this letter, and was always annoyed with her husband that heacted upon it.
Everything was in disorder; the infantry and cavalry were huddled together pell-mell; no commands could be acted upon, and indeed the whole army was so disorganised that it could have been easily beaten by a handful of men.
They deliberated thereon, deputed a commission to examine the matter, made a great fuss, and came to the conclusion that the edict would, if acted upon, be very prejudicial to the country.
Hence it becomes necessary to consider what would be the political value of the Freeholds of Westmoreland, if the system of Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage (countenanced by Mr. Brougham) should be acted upon.
It is more probable for Shelley's poetry to be forgotten, than for his social views to be acted upon.
Defn: An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
Hutton's theory only establishes the principle, that the lighter the body projected, the sooner it isacted upon by atmospheric resistance, and a medium velocity induced.
Arsenide of zinc (made by fusing together equal weights of zinc and arsenic) is acted upon by strong hydrochloric acid or by sulphuric acid diluted with three parts of water.
The body is self-moved in obedience to the active energy of the nervous organism, and this organism again, acts only as it is acted upon by the mind that animates, pervades, and controls that organism.
It is, however, not eligible as a pigment, owing to the rapidity with which the oxide is acted upon by the air.
Here the chyme is acted uponby the bile, and the pancreatic juice.
The portal vein carries the blood from the digestive organs to the liver, where it is acted upon, thence poured into the ascending vena cava, and goes back to the heart.
That believed better is held to, asserted, affirmed, acted upon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acted upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
