How to Use verbatim in a Sentence

verbatim

1 of 2 adverb

• Some of their words are used verbatim in the film to lay bare the horrors of the dictatorship.
  — Daniel Politi, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
• Who among us didn’t watch this movie so much, it could be recited verbatim by our teen years?
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
• The girls were accustomed to copying lessons verbatim from the blackboard.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• But most of the definitions — thousands of them — were drawn verbatim from Entick.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Whenever a topic on the card is mentioned, cross it off and keep going — and no, the topic does not have to be mentioned verbatim.
  — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
• So much of the action is spelled out verbatim here that The Kite Runner is more of a vivid recitation than fully realized drama.
  — Naveen Kumar, Vulture, 21 July 2022
• The voice uttered words that appeared verbatim on Trump's Truth Social platform, but there is nothing explicit in the ad that says that the voice is not Trump's.
  — Fin Gómez, CBS News, 18 July 2023
• It has not been made public, and the people familiar with it would not describe Trump’s statements verbatim.
  — Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• Most of them could have been printed verbatim as a newspaper column.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
• Presenters take the deck, send it ahead to the audience and then proceed to read the slides verbatim during the pitch, thus patronizing the audience.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• The coach exploded the next season when a Texas reporter quoted Williams’ Southern drawl verbatim in a story.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The case is drawn from astonishing real-life events and much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim from court transcripts.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
• Sadly, Kolgaan doesn’t make it into Beau Is Afraid, but the first half of the short, right up until the possum enters the narrative, appears in the feature almost verbatim.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2023
• Later that day, Graham and two other observers quoted the policy verbatim in a challenge to the city election.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• My daughter and her friend can recite the land acknowledgement verbatim.
  — Hazlitt, 17 Jan. 2024
• Note that titles, artists, and descriptions were taken verbatim from the MBTA website.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Don’t Look Up is satire (a brilliant one, in my estimation), but that part could have come verbatim out of the Defense Department’s supply chain report.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
• Key words are vital to get your résumé noticed but cramming in phrases lifted verbatim from the job description or make your résumé hard to read won’t get you far.
  — Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
• The executive was read a post that Molly had liked or saved from Instagram, and heard how it was copied almost verbatim in a note filled with words of self-loathing later found by her parents.
  — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Wallace goes on to point at the petition on the petition circulator’s clipboard and read it verbatim.
  — Suhauna Hussainstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• But most of this week’s 38 inking entries (31 on the print page) stuck to the original meaning, often quoting verbatim from some newsmaker or other.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• Ballard thought about his country, and at one point on Thursday, stopped and read verbatim from the Declaration of Independence.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2020
• The company cited the same reasoning verbatim for layoffs in this week’s notice as in the previous layoff.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Hours later, Bloys’ wording was posted verbatim to the comment section.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
• At one point, Eno answered an inquiry about working with someone by repeating, almost verbatim, a story that appeared in the film.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• Buster would record himself reading the script and reciting similar words in Clinton’s accent, so Owen could listen and repeat them verbatim.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2021
• Ellsberg would be blindsided when excerpts of the papers were published verbatim.
  — Will Lester, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• Many other parts of the show – including monologues about his childhood in Freehold, his father, Clarence Clemons, dodging the Vietnam draft, and driving cross-country in 1970 – were taken verbatim from the last run.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2021
• But the words are taken verbatim from a 1970 police charging record, documenting the reasons for Mr. Sirico’s arrest on extortion and weapons charges.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
• The group polled viewers in three of those districts as the ads rolled out and found that constituents were quoting the messages of the ads verbatim - indicating to officials that their message is resonating, according to the group's polling memo.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019

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verbatim

2 of 2 adjective

• But of course, there’s no need to copy their looks verbatim.
  — Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
• Thanks to the glories of this modern age, the tweet was available to people in the hall, and it was read to Comey and Rogers verbatim.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2017
• The transcript is performed verbatim, right down to the tiniest hems and haws.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
• Amash used that line verbatim to reply to Trump's threat.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
• The vast majority of the scenes in the TV movie, at least on paper, come straight out of Heat — often verbatim.
  — Vulture, 16 June 2022
• The memo released by the White House was not a verbatim transcript, but was instead based on the records of officials who listened to the call.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
• That is, verbatim, the form in which the inquiry is typically posed.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2020
• Ivey replied with the same non-answer, almost verbatim.
  — al, 24 Aug. 2022
• An important letter that is sent toward the end of the film is almost verbatim to what appears in the book.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• Or is there something about the verbatim text that was different?
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• The video is a verbatim reenactment of the arrest except that Rome cast a white actress as Bland and a black actor as Encinia.
  — Ariel Parrella-Aureli, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
• Over the remainder of the episode, Clare dances around repeating J.P.’s words verbatim.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• And in a stroke of genius, Satter equips her and the rest of the cast with verbatim dialogue recorded during the search, inquiry, and arrest.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
• At Monday night’s meeting, three of the residents read their letters verbatim, while the fourth summed up his thoughts.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 27 Aug. 2019
• In this case, the Times really went for it, publishing all three quotes verbatim.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
• Like Cooper, Kempner takes Trump at his verbatim word — that is, takes his words — and applies a twist.
  — Robert Lloyd, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• The owner of the page copies and pastes all of Mr. Trump's posts verbatim to see if Facebook will flag any for violence or hurtful language.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 June 2020
• Sullivan said that a lot of the current rhetoric is verbatim with the documents and publications of the past.
  — Jemma Stephenson, al, 16 June 2023
• Sanders issued a two-paragraph statement on the shooting and read it nearly verbatim on the Senate floor.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2017
• First, the questions listed in the Times may not be verbatim, so nuances in their original phrasing may have been lost.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 May 2018
• No need to scan through clunky, verbatim transcriptions to find a single detail.
  — Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Since the school shooting, Trump has essentially echoed the NRA talking points, at times, verbatim.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The book also lifted plot points and verbatim phrases from Tolkien’s trilogy, the lawsuit claimed.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Nevertheless, a 65-minute verbatim transcript has now become the basis for one of the thrillingest thrillers ever to hit Broadway.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• Many of the emails opposing the plan were virtually verbatim.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
• Each call is great in its own way, and below is each call, verbatim, starting with Scully and Garagiola.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• Thus, dialogue is not a verbatim one-to-one translation from English to sign language.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Cooper’s original dream of the Black Lodge is repeated, more or less verbatim, with a spectral woman who both is and isn’t Laura Palmer.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 22 May 2017
• Four minutes later, the initial tweet was deleted and replaced with a verbatim statement that mentioned Karl instead of Carl.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Throughout the documentary, viewers get to see and hear (at times directly from Chu) verbatim tweets sent his way from Jeopardy haters or plain ol’ trolls.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 20 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024