Example sentences for: verb

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

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

  • Once it became obvious that the case was being lost, the defendant's lawyer blamed the whole flap on a printer's error, maintaining that his client's original ad copy depicted Gargantua speaking in the future tense of the verb: “Un de ces jours, on jumbo frankfurtera dans les coins” [`One of these days, folks around here will be eating big hot dogs.

  • It is probably bootless to beseech that the noun-verb nay-sayers withhold snap judgments at least until a new, verb's utility has been duly usaged.

  • If a child, in early attempts at cookery, made a mess, it was a mommick or a begarm , both of which were used as noun and verb.

  • Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.


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