Words similar to verb
Example sentences for: verb
How can you use “verb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Gunyah , the Dharuk word for dwelling, is matched by the Melburnian quamby , a verb meaning lie down, camp, and also a noun meaning shelter, by the Brisbane humpy , the Adelaide wurley , and the Perth mia mia .
I do not agree that the relative brevity of many Russian proverbs stems from the fact that the Russian language has no articles and also resorts idiomatically to participial condensation by not using oblique forms of the verb to be.
Take the verb cut, which in common ranch parlance has two meanings, the first as stated above being `castrate.
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.
A comparison of the present tenses of the verb to have and to be yields the following reversals: