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
• 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
• Where are the verbs, the adjectives, the nouns in a photograph?
  — Errol Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The verb fight is transitive here and does have an object.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019
• The term can be used as a noun or verb, depending on the sentence.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
• 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
• Drill, in the hip-hop sense, is not just a genre name but also a verb.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Since the film, her name has become a household word—even a verb.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Things get even more confusing when moot is used as a verb.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 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
• 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
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a past-tense verb.
  — WSJ, 28 Sep. 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
• What haunted me, then and for many years, was the active verb in that sentence.
  — Trina Ryan, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• And could this past participle of the verb to do be considered an emotion?
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• Sly and his multiracial band at their peak, reminding you that funk is both a noun and a verb.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 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
• Its name comes from the Swahili verb, kujenga, which means to build.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2020
• Recently the word retreat has become more noun than verb.
  — Nora Zelevansky, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
• In Hoang's world, cubing is a verb and a calming practice.
  — Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019
• Airbnb’s years of investment in its name as both a noun and a verb are now paying dividends.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 1 June 2021
• For subjects of verbs, use I, you, he, she, it, we, and they.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Even short emails were well constructed, with active verbs.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
• Like many brands that have gone generic, xerox is often lower-case and used as a verb.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• There is no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool.
  — Dwight Garner, Esquire, 21 July 2017
• Up until then, to waste a life was a cool verb from, like, a Charles Bronson movie.
  — Michael Roberts, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024