Example sentences for: verb

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

  • To Verb or Not to Verb

  • Perhaps the writer was not serious, because he had a plural subject with a singular verb, runneth , in the relative clause.

  • The dumb blonde who got fresh was obviously eine dumme Blondine, die frech wurde . In British English the verb stem had always meant to `hold back, resist,' as in stem the tide , for instance.

  • But the only words which imply some sort of relationship, either of location or utilization, between the Aborigines and the land are hunting ground (it being observed in 1830 that the Natives are as tenacious of their hunting grounds as settlers are of their farms), the verb to fire , used with reference to the Aboriginal practice of setting fire to a tract of vegetation either to trap animals or to maintain grassland, and run and station.

  • First, surf as a verb [1913] seems to be an abbreviation of the now obsolete surf-bathe [1906].


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