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
  • The girls were accustomed to copying lessons verbatim from the blackboard.
    Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Most of them could have been printed verbatim as a newspaper column.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
  • 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
  • But most of the definitions — thousands of them — were drawn verbatim from Entick.
    Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ellsberg would be blindsided when excerpts of the papers were published verbatim.
    Will Lester, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The same message was tweeted verbatim by multiple accounts.
    NBC News, 1 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hours later, Bloys’ wording was posted verbatim to the comment section.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Numerous passages from this article appear to have been copied verbatim from previous sources.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2016
  • 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
  • That question is a serious, long-time issue in the professional food world, where recipes can be reprinted verbatim without credit.
    Kate Krader, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their real-life conversation is recreated almost verbatim in the series.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Note that titles, artists, and descriptions were taken verbatim from the MBTA website.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The Atlantic subsequently released a recording of its interview, which proved that he had been quoted absolutely verbatim.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these office rules aren't exactly written verbatim but have become commonalities that everyone strives to implement.
    Yec, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • McDonough said the information was taken verbatim from the paperwork of another financial service.
    John Caniglia, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
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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
  • The transcript is performed verbatim, right down to the tiniest hems and haws.
    Terry Teachout, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Or is there something about the verbatim text that was different?
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Amash used that line verbatim to reply to Trump's threat.
    Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 13 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • No need to scan through clunky, verbatim transcriptions to find a single detail.
    Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Many of the emails opposing the plan were virtually verbatim.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • In this case, the Times really went for it, publishing all three quotes verbatim.
    Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
  • Sanders issued a two-paragraph statement on the shooting and read it nearly verbatim on the Senate floor.
    Washington Post, 15 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Although this is not a verbatim drama, interviews are the source of the dramatic material.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The effect of repeating this, verbatim, can be powerful.
    Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 29 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • The appeals court ruled that those scenes would be understood as dramatizations, and not as verbatim transcripts taken from real life.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • These writings were preached, sometimes verbatim, from pulpits.
    Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Over the remainder of the episode, Clare dances around repeating J.P.’s words verbatim.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Thus, dialogue is not a verbatim one-to-one translation from English to sign language.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • To begin with, there’s no way an entire half-hour conversation could be recorded verbatim in only five pages.
    Daniel Ginsberg, Quartz, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Much of the document’s language was taken verbatim from the governor’s aborted request.
    Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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