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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