Words similar to verbs
Example sentences for: verbs
How can you use “verbs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(All name-based verbs given as examples in this article are included in the OED2 , the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang or the Longman Register of New Words unless otherwise stated.)
Absorbing these criticisms, Stoat came to the realization that the problem lay in verbs.
More numerous are those transformed by first-syllable stress from verbs to nouns or, less commonly, to adjectives.
In one place he shows how the rhetorical shape of a passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , with its paired images and a ribbing of parallel verbs, finds a visual counterpoint in works of landscape design and even dance notation.
Fifteen is not a lot of senses for take : in the Ox-ford Thesaurus we listed twenty-seven senses for which there were viable synonyms before reaching the phrasal verb section; the phrasal verbs yielded another twenty-five common senses for which synonyms could be adduced.
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