How to Use verbally in a Sentence

verbally

adverb

• It's been a busy, verbally abusive few days for the rap game.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 May 2024
• Boone said that Cortes did not verbally push to stay in the game, but the two talked after the pitching change.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• The give and take between artists is not always done verbally.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
• The officer again tells her to get out of the car, according to the video, which Young appears to verbally refuse to do.
  — Brittany Gaddy, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• During their trips down the steep slopes from the nunnery to the local market, the nuns have been verbally abused by monks from other sects.
  — Sameer Yasir Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Back then, only white men could vote (naturally) and it was done verbally and out in the open.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Sep. 2024
• During the episode, the 58-year old was enraged and attacked her husband verbally.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 Aug. 2024
• Johnson has said that he was verbally assaulted and not paid for his work.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
• The best way to turn down a job offer is verbally to the recruiter or hiring manager first and then put it in writing.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• After verbally agreeing to the contract, Houllis chartered an Uber ride for the teen and brought her to his home where she was given her own bedroom and food.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 July 2023
• His writhing and flailing, verbally as well as bodily, serve as the 11 o’clock number.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• One thing is coming up with sayings [to verbally butcher] and turns of phrases to keep in that little notebook of my mind for Hank.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• Because of the compressed time frame, Batiste would often take a few minutes to work through an idea in his head and then have to tell it, verbally, to the band and then come together to play.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024
• Then some choose to lead in both ways, showing the way but also being the team’s biggest influence verbally.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• As the queen bee of Northshore High, Regina is often shown verbally attacking her classmates and close friends.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• My father-in-law verbally and emotionally abused his late wife of over 50 years.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• Even if a baby is verbally advanced, IQ tests are not designed for children this young.
  — Carol Bainbridge, Parents, 23 July 2024
• Court records said over the past three months, Davis had become more verbally and physically abusive with the children.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
• In the scene, Kathy and Johnny verbally spar over Benny’s love and loyalty, until Johnny thinks he’s got the better of the housewife.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 24 June 2024
• Ramirez, a native of Sonora, Mexico, had a partner — not the father of her child — who was verbally abusive with her.
  — Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2024
• Sword purchased one of Stuart’s Athenaeum replicas, verbally agreeing not to make copies.
  — Michael Hussey, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
• That trooper relayed the message verbally to the Secret Service in the command center.
  — Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 29 July 2024
• Biermann, 38, verbally confirmed to the judge that the Alpharetta estate will be foreclosed on Nov. 7.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• The officer woke Tyson, who sat up but didn't respond verbally, according to the report.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• Both had been committed verbally — and very much nonbinding — to Notre Dame.
  — Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Skip Bayless has a new sparring partner, at least verbally.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Later that day a customer verbally threatened to rape one of his employees.
  — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
• Fuller chose to include just a couple of fleeting crime scene shots, with more graphic details of what the boys suffered verbally mentioned in passing.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024
• The opponents verbally debated the merits of mumblecore filmmaking — a style that Swanberg pioneered but which Faraci criticized in his writing.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
• The student had multiple accounts of bullying, both physically and verbally, that had gone without discipline.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024