Example sentences for: transitive

How can you use “transitive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I am prejudiced, I know, but while I find the use of impact as a verb an interesting linguistic development, I consider it execrable style for literate speakers and (especially) writers; yet it appears in Rose's Preface, where one can also find a transitive use for coruscate ( OED2e please note).

  • To explore the evolutionary affinities of the ERF domains, we carried out a sequence profile analysis as described above for the RecT case using transitive PSI-BLAST analysis.

  • In each case, a word or phrase that provides a synonym appears in a box, followed by the pronunciation(s), followed by a part-of-speech label, followed by a symbol in brackets keyed to grammatical information given in the forematter ([T] being the symbol for “transitive verb, which has an object”), the definition and a series of collocational examples.

  • This allows reconciliation of transitive data around a circle of comparisons.

  • These motifs correspond to the above-mentioned conserved signatures, which are characteristic of the NlpC/P60-like proteins, and were readily identifiable in all true positives recovered in the transitive sequence profile searches.


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