Example sentences for: verbs

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

  • Far more confusion is being caused by the insidious loss of second-syllable stress in words that are both verbs and nouns.

  • In addition to horario, proyecto , and programa , mentioned by Mr. Cassidy (and the corresponding verbs, proyectar, programar ), Spanish has the very useful one-word equivalents calendario, agenda, and diario (for daily schedule, of course).

  • One need only remember how the appropriation of the verbs dig , rap , and groove by grown-ups during the late 1960s and early 1970s proved to be a kiss of death.

  • Nowhere in English is this human impulse to simplify and streamline more evident than in the formation of verbs.

  • Why must people be ironical instead of ironic , or satirical instead of satiric ? The - ate suffix, originally a harmless suffix to denote causative verbs such as substantiate from substance, is particularly pernicious.


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