How to Use verve in a Sentence

verve

noun

• She played with skill and verve.
• The team has moved the ball, crisply and with verve, the entire way.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 7 Mar. 2020
• On Up had the verve and vigour of the late singer himself.
  — Lauren Le Vine, refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• The club, some said, was bound to lose much of its verve.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 9 June 2024
• Its script is junk—but junk brought to the screen with verve.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• The sounds of fall have gone silent — the pompom verve of the cheerleaders, the brassy pep of the band.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• The performers took the mic to speak their truths with verve and spark and flow.
  — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• There’s even a little flip edge at the top of the hatchback for extra verve.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2017
• And Jordan, in his own quiet away, agrees, if not with quite the same verve.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• Yet over the past two games, Louisville played with verve and confidence.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2018
• The tenor Rodell Rosel brought verve and flair to the malicious yet bungling Monostatos.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
• But this in-your-face modern tragedy has something to say and says it with verve and style.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
• That verve impresses the mighty All Might, Japan’s greatest hero with the smile to match.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• But one of the best things about Towa Bird is that for her, verve is never in short supply.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2024
• Battle of the Sexes is directed with all the verve of a TV movie.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• But too much of this plays rather rotely, without the verve the film keeps promising.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• The minutes and mileage have left a mark on all of the Spurs, but none more so than the Australian ball of verve coming off the bench.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 7 May 2021
• This section has a narrative verve that the other parts of the book lack.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• Rising in the kitchen was about chutzpah, drive, verve and vision.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• The scenes set in Jane’s classroom gleam with specificity and verve.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• After fighting off the Netherland in a nail-biter, the U.S. seemed to regain its verve.
  — Sean Gregory/yokohama, Time, 30 July 2021
• In a style that suggests an extended monologue, Lurie shares the highs and the lows with equal verve.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• This is the verve and that innate élan that says Never give up; face that giant head-on.
  — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Overall, the four young stars have great chemistry and give the adaptation verve and life.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 May 2018
• The Boston area is alive in the collection, as is the verve and force of this poet’s long career.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• Flinders Food Co This rustic outback eatery has all the verve and style of an urban cafe.
  — Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024
• But this side has none of the same verve after key players were sold in the offseason.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• Even the songs that seem slower on record here had a verve and energy that made the music pop.
  — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
• That aspect of the viticulture gives this a deeper concentration of fruit and structure, but, in the tradition of classic Provence, still maintains its freshness and verve.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• And yet even this problem should have been surmountable, especially with Gaga's titanic talent — a song delivered and staged with verve, panache and wit can bloom in the nastiest of scenarios.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024