How to Use conjugation in a Sentence

conjugation

noun

• The French national team at this World Cup has been about as inscrutable as French conjugation.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• The numbers around Nadal’s dominance in Paris at this point are more dizzying than French conjugation.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
• During the first three weeks, as students chanted verb conjugations and ate oatmeal in the courtyard of the school’s low-slung yellow buildings, four more disappeared.
  — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
• All the coins are partitioned into groups with the same itineraries and all the itineraries are paired up by conjugation.
  — Nicholas Diaco, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
• Flanagan’s prose becomes languidly reliant on the verb feel and all its conjugations.
  — William Giraldi, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• This is frequently the case in language where, for example, the correct conjugation of a verb or gender of a pronoun at the end of a sentence can depend on a subject that occurs at the start of the sentence, or even several sentences back.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
• For her, sometimes the conjugation was a haphazard intertwining, with loose swings—other times more planned and positive.
  — Diane Williams, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• There are also more traditional modes of learning that should bolster your vocabulary and conjugation skills.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 21 Nov. 2019
• There’s less emphasis than in other programs on nailing grammar or committing conjugation, or verb sets, to memory.
  — Betsy Blumenthal, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2020
• Helping students learn from mistakes, take responsibility and grow is as critical to their future as math equations and verb conjugations — perhaps more so.
  — Braden Bell, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• For example, languages lose irregular verb conjugations or other word forms that are hard to remember.
  — Michael Erard, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
• While apps like Duolingo are known for hammering in vocabulary through simple flashcard-type quizzes, Rosetta Stone progresses to verbs and conjugation through more complex learning models.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 June 2023
• In addition to the Civil War and verb conjugation, part of my seventh-grade curriculum focused on advancing our computer literacy.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• But Spanish speakers from four centuries ago might have recognized the unusual verb conjugations — if not the unorthodox pronunciations and words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America.
  — Simon Romero Desiree Rios, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• That discovery, known as conjugation, involves attaching proteins to the polysaccharides — complex sugars — on the bacterium’s outer capsule.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• For there to be the sort of difference between the two that makes our Universe possible, something has to break the apparent symmetry between them (technically termed charge-conjugation and parity-reversal symmetry, or simply CP symmetry).
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2020
• One poem contains a note on Spanish verb conjugation, another features an explanation of stereotypic behavior in captive animals, a third includes a pocket history of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• Incorrect punctuation and grammar conjugation were not counted.
  — Marina Di Marzo, CNN, 3 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024