Wasn't passive

Usage examples of reacted.

When confronted with a problem, he has generally reacted with aggression and justified his offensives with distortions and convoluted logic.

The Security Council reacted by passing another resolution that did impose the travel restrictions and threatened additional actions if Iraq did not shape up.

Baghdad reacted immediately, mobilizing the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard, dispersing the army, and implementing emergency security measures across the country.

James kept listening for signs of impatience or anger, but whenever his aunt acted in an unreasonable manner, Elizabeth reacted with an amused indulgence that James found enchanting.

His touch woke her at once, and she reacted to his hungry need for contact, folding herself against him, warm, sensual, alive against his cold deathliness.

She started to turn, and her eyes reacted to the light as I moved the final pace, dropped the pistol on the bed, then smacked my open hand over her mouth.

I think that the fact that neither of you has reacted with surprise or outrage to my accusation means you already know all about this mystery ship.

Each member of the crew reacted almost instinctively to his responsibilities as the minutes passed.

In the past few days, each one of you has faced tremendous odds and reacted in a manner that has brought honor to yourselves and your families.

Ohwan reacted quickly and hugged the woman tightly, pinning her arms between them and calling out her name repeatedly to calm her.

Enough men had reacted that way to make me certain of it, so it must have been a male thing.

He was gently shaking her by the arms, but from the way Miralia reacted, he might as well have been beating her with a stick.

Just because she had reacted sexually to the man, that was no reason to go investing him with magical powers.

The way he was looking at her made her shiver as she reacted automatically to the sharpness of his voice by stepping back from him.

She must have moved, although she had no conscious awareness of having done so, only of being closer to him--so close that she could feel the steady thud of his heart, which was quickly becoming far less steady as his body registered her nearness and reacted to her with such frank maleness that she tensed instinctively.