Example sentences for: transitive

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

  • 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 is because all comparisons of expression level between the mutant strains are transitive comparisons, which inherit the variance associated with the intermediary wild-type expression level as well as the variance associated with the expression levels of the two mutant strains.

  • 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).

  • Only GenBank sequence accession identifiers that appear in the MGI database were retained in TC-GB and GB-TC because those sequences will bridge the transitive associations between MGI genes and TCs.

  • The smaller the circumference of the circle created, the stronger the transitive power.


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