Example sentences for: verbs

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

  • As far as grammar is concerned, the simplistic syntax and the exceptional preponderance of nouns and verbs (with an accompanying heavy reliance on conversion) are obvious and enduring.

  • The verbs "to Scheck" and "to Schecktify" entered the legal vocabulary.

  • 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.

  • Thus, we can see at a glance that, for example, the highest mortality again appeared in the new noun compounds, where 28% of the deletions were noun compounds, whereas the only variant form was tabbouli . The deletions consisted of 134 nouns, 16 adjectives, 12 verbs, and 2 affixes.

  • What about verbs such as boycott, hoover, gerrymander, pasteurize (all based on personal names, though all usually written with a small letter).


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