How to Use verb in a Sentence
verb
noun-
In essence, the verb agrees with the meaning of the sentence.
— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2020 -
But I was perplexed last year to hear the new verb to adult.
— Ben Sasse, WSJ, 5 May 2017 -
For subjects of verbs, use I, you, he, she, it, we, and they.
— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023 -
The first character is the verb to make, the second is to turn over.
— Victor Wei Ke Yang, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 -
The word ‘wrong’ can be an adjective, a noun and a verb.
— New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021 -
Drill, in the hip-hop sense, is not just a genre name but also a verb.
— Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022 -
Where are the verbs, the adjectives, the nouns in a photograph?
— Errol Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017 -
The word – as a verb – did not exist before about 1980.
— George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021 -
Since the film, her name has become a household word—even a verb.
— Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 May 2021 -
The verb used for that intercession is va’yechal, the very term used in our text.
— Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 6 July 2021 -
In its verb form, to be humbugged is to be deceived or be the victim of a hoax.
— Elizabeth Wolfe and Douglas S. Wood, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019 -
The term can be used as a noun or verb, depending on the sentence.
— Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023 -
Its name comes from the Swahili verb, kujenga, which means to build.
— NBC News, 6 Nov. 2020 -
To be a citizen, in that framing of things, is to embrace the verb as well as the noun.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018 -
Up until then, to waste a life was a cool verb from, like, a Charles Bronson movie.
— Michael Roberts, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2021 -
The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a past-tense verb.
— WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023 -
What haunted me, then and for many years, was the active verb in that sentence.
— Trina Ryan, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2020 -
The verb fight is transitive here and does have an object.
— Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019 -
In Spanish, there are two different words for the verb to be.
— Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2023 -
The man can't get from a subject to a verb without removing a chunk of his own spleen.
— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 May 2015 -
For objects of verbs and prepositions, use me, you, him, her, it, us, and them.
— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023 -
The verb nurabi, meaning to raise or to rear, is what a parent does for a child, or what a farmer does for crops.
— Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 -
For millions of people, Slack is a verb, a utility, and a way of life.
— Declan Harty, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021 -
Things get even more confusing when moot is used as a verb.
— Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2021 -
An open society sees truth as process and method—more verb than noun.
— Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024 -
The transformer figures out that wants and cash are both verbs (both words can also be nouns).
— Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023 -
The second is is the verb for the pronoun who, whose antecedent in this sentence is people.
— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021 -
This is one of the rare big-brained small words that work equally well as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
— Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022 -
In Hoang's world, cubing is a verb and a calming practice.
— Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019 -
The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
— Kris Holt, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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