Example sentences for: verb

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

  • 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.

  • In this particular instance the verb is employed as a present participle by Washington Irving in Life & Letters (1831) to describe his hero a rodomontading Congressman from the Western States.

  • It also works as a verb, when the chief hatchetman reports, after a busy day: Great news, boss.

  • Anyway, I don't think "Lewinsky," as a verb or a noun, has the staying power of something like Heimlich, another eponym (word named after a person, for those who are reading over our shoulders) involving one person doing something physical to another.

  • The second definition of fuckable, sexually available, with a single 1977 example, was pushed back to 1972 in Bruce Rodgers's Queens' Vernacular, which also supplied a first cite for mouthfuck, verb.


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