How to Use transitive in a Sentence

transitive

adjective

• In “I like pie” and “She makes hats,” the verbs “like” and “makes” are transitive.
• The verb fight is transitive here and does have an object.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019
• Arguments based in transitive nature can get down in the weeds.
  — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• By the transitive property, the winner of this last election must be the best candidate ...
  — Laura Feiveson, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020
• By the transitive property, a room full of Colombians had come to cheer for an iconic German side.
  — Brad Rickman, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2018
• By the transitive property of celebrity, actors can be politicians.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 20 Apr. 2017
• By the transitive property of wins, that means the Raiders have a shot at keeping Atlantic’s offense at bay.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• By the transitive property of celebrity, actors can be politicians.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 20 Apr. 2017
• But there’s a transitive property to approval and confidence.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2022
• All of this begs the question: how can a defense stop Bernhardt and — by transitive property — the Terps offense?
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 27 May 2021
• The sense of destiny that shrouds her characters gives them—and, by some transitive property, the reader—an archaic grandeur of feeling.
  — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• In fact, the above argument involving the triangle, the rectangle and the square shows that scissors congruence is also transitive.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• And if industry dynamics are not transitive across the board, expertise isn’t, either.
  — Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 30 Mar. 2017
• And if industry dynamics are not transitive across the board, expertise isn’t, either.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2017
• In one paper, Choi’s team used an algorithm to sift through more than seven hundred movie scripts and count the transitive verbs connoting power and agency.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2022
• Apply the transitive property and boom, sandwiches don’t exist without a serrated knife.
  — Elaheh Nozari, Bon Appetit, 26 Feb. 2018
• In the game of sports transitive theory, Notre Dame’s task in beating Boston College today just got tougher.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• By the transitive property, Detroit should be favored over Minnesota.
  — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
• Even those bigwigs paid obeisance to someone and, eventually, by the transitive property of Saudi deference, to the king himself.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• By the transitive property, James Comey is real America?
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 23 Oct. 2017
• Zach Morrison: Remember the transitive property in middle school math class?
  — Paul Talbot, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• The female hustle rapper has been dishing out her own style of transitive female rap since 2016.
  — Kayla Cockrel, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2019
• Bakhtin shows us what fires the world’s admiration of Zelensky: that dignity is available to those who smile at degradation, and that courage and comedy have a transitive relationship.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2022
• Did college football’s transitive property apply to Michigan?
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
• The transitive-property arguments – if the last-place team in the Big East can beat the No. 4 team in America, etc. etc.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Through the transitive property, UCF declared itself the real national champions, and that includes the team’s Twitter name and bio.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 3 Jan. 2018
• But if the Texans take it to the Patriots, then get whupped in that same yard by Denver ... then the Broncos are championship-caliber by virtue of the transitive property, right?
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2019
• While the transitive property doesn’t perfectly predict future outcomes, the Gators’ latest performances are lagging behind those of Bama.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• If a teacher’s intellectual, subjective role in educating her students is belittled, this has a transitive effect.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• Thus, by the analyst’s clumsy use of the transitive property, the Quincy Institute and its fellow travelers are Nazi sympathizers.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024