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
• Much of the anguish and the elation in our lives begins with a glance, a kiss and then—a lifelong struggle to make sense of the verb to love.
  — Sue Johnson, Scientific American, 23 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 Apr 2024