How to Use vert in a Sentence

vert

noun
  • But all of those medals came in the vert, which is not on the Olympic program.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
  • The idea was to adapt a trick performed on big vert ramps and apply it to the wall of a skatepark.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The idea of setting a new vert record came to him in July 2017, after Hardrock.
    Elliott D. Woods, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Hawk, the king of vert, was in Paris last night to launch himself into a new arena: fashion.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2019
  • In Tokyo, park and street skateboarding made their debut, but vert did not.
    Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Nothing but vert, baby,’’ Garrett says, with a wink to the camera.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 1 May 2020
  • VMAs why is ed sheeran singing in harmony with lil uzi vert ???
    Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The name Vermont itself comes from the French words vert, meaning green, and mont, meaning mountain.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1930s, Europe’s wealthy flocked to Cerbère to take in the green ray—the hotel’s eponymous rayon vert—given off by the sun rising over the Mediterranean.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Spending his summers on a skateboard, White earned two X Games championships on the vert ramp.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Tony Hawk’s Vert Alert is a brand new event that focuses on vert skateboarding, the big-air style Hawk is famous for.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • Vert Alert was one of Bryce Wettstein’s first professional vert contests.
    Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Simond has also said that the rayon vert—the green ray—of the film’s title serves as an apt symbol of her photographic process.
    Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Green, who turned professional a year ago, can hold his own against any of them on the vert ramp, in the pool and on the unique Skatercross track that was devised by Macdonald.
    Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Even with only 155 horses, the little ‘vert gamely kept up with the modern SLs in our caravan.
    Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Anything below five vert on any breaking stuff is very solid.
    John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Brian went with the branzino, a Mediterranean sea bass served with buluga lentils and fennel bagnet vert.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Tankersley had a bad vert in Indy, but flashes ability like this on jump balls.
    Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Blake Anderson’s offense puts the vert in vertical passing, having been one of the teams near the top of the list of national attacks last season with the most 30-to-40-yard plays.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The perfume, a Sephora exclusive, has notes of vert de bergamote, vanilla, lime zest, and apple extract.
    Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 14 May 2018
  • Haricots verts are slender French green beans often available at farmer’s markets.
    Terri Milligan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2017
  • The Times reported that, in 2005, the women’s street and vert winners at the X Games earned two thousand dollars apiece; the men’s winner in each category earned fifty thousand.
    Nathan Fitch, The New Yorker, 20 July 2021
  • Lizzie Armanto ascends a metal extension ladder, skateboard in hand, to the platform at the top of an indoor vert ramp.
    Nathan Fitch, The New Yorker, 20 July 2021
  • Add asparagus, haricots verts and peas to boiling water.
    The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Some scavengers turned the Washington Monument into a vert ramp.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Downhill cruising morphed into wild tricks off vert ramps and spinning moves inside empty swimming pools, then skate parks and the urban vibe of street skating.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • French green beans, also called haricot verts, are sweeter still and harvested when smaller than a pinky finger and quite succulent.
    Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 18 July 2017
  • Typically, the event is a live showcase featuring street, vert and park disciplines.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Hawk originally envisioned the event as a catalyst to get vert skateboarding into the Olympics.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Much of the aligoté planted in Burgundy is the vigorous aligoté vert, which produces quantity rather than quality.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 6 July 2017

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