Example sentences for: verbal

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

  • ) Similarly, lip salve is insincere flattery, though it may be enjoyed by the recipient nonetheless as a form of ear candy . Lip , with its satisfying mouthfeel (to use the jargon of the food-service industry) and its still-obvious link to an elemental root (the Indo-European leb , with the connotation ""), has formed numerous slang combinations whose meanings touch all the compass points of verbal intention.

  • Through verbal performances, joking, and narrating humorous anecdotes, an individual can suspend elements of gravity, snobbery, or socially imposed acceptable conduct.

  • Contrary to popular belief, the point of studying verbal aggression is not to modify or ameliorate or eliminate it—serious scholars consider it bad form to tamper with the evidence—but to describe and codify it, much as investigators have tried to do with all other available phenomena, whether natural or artificial, whether in pure or physical or social science.

  • She struck the blow in response to ritual verbal abuse by several upperclassmen.

  • The energetic defining and developing of a woman's language, the inevitable doubting and questioning of it, is energized by the work of French feminists, and is displayed in the verbal acrobatics of radical feminist theologian Mary Daly.


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