How to Use verify in a Sentence

verify

verb
  • He verified that the item was in stock.
  • Can you verify whether I am scheduled to work or not?
  • She verified her flight number.
  • Your gut is great, but trust and verify.
    Dave Knox, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • And, of course, their claims have been verified by the court.
    NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The code has since been verified.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Newsweek could not verify this source.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So this is the trust and verify portion of the bill.
    Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 19 Mar. 2026
  • If the state can verify the owner, mail the check.
    Mark Lewyn, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • Newsweek has not been able to verify the claims made by the Mail.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Buck warns that any work sent home cannot be verified as the student’s work.
    Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Fill in your date of birth, email address and full name to verify your age.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Is your brand easy to digest and verify?
    John Hall, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Please don’t check the paper to verify that.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This is so the bank can verify the details of the transfer.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Half of the goals could not be verified because the plans were too vague or the date was too far out.
    Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • There’s just no way to verify your commands on the fob itself.
    Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There was no way to verify any of it, but just in case, the team rolled out with three massive rigs.
    Thallman, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Reuters was able to verify the location but not the date.
    Reuters 19 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • None of this seems to have been verified before it was posted.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There were a lot of rumors and people who had points of view that weren’t verified.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The livestream had a longshot to make sure home viewers could verify this.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Supply chains are hard to verify.
    ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • The first test verified that the battery's cells do, in fact, support quick charge.
    New Atlas, 1 Apr. 2026
  • None of the complaints was verified.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The report goes on to say the tools are helpful but always verify.
    Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
  • These allow agents to call on software to complete or verify their work.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If an email pushes any button to fix a problem, pause and verify first.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In the next and final step, you may be required to verify your email with a six-digit code.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These take days to count due to the need to verify voters' signatures.
    Jeremy Duda, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024

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