Past tense of exemplify
regular verb
The past tense of exemplify is exemplified. The past participle is also exemplified.
Forms of exemplify
| Base form (V1) | exemplify /ɛɡˈzɛmplɪfaɪ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | exemplified |
| Past participle (V3) | exemplified |
| Present participle | exemplifying |
| Third person singular | exemplifies |
Exemplified in a sentence
- In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60
- Western Europe tends to have a monochronic time orientation, as exemplified by the adage "there is a time and place for everything".From the entry monochronic
- We began with a worksheet exemplified in Example 6 Match the emojis to the Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala.2021, Peter John Wilson, Developing Indigenous language materials for schools and land-based documentation: Gwa'sala-'Nak'waxda'xw Nation…. From the entry Bak̓wa̱mk̓ala
- A student of youth subcultures, Hall crossbred the increasingly influential cultural Marxism, exemplified by E.2014, Lynn Hunt, Writing History in the Global Era, →ISBN. From the entry cultural marxism
- Sinclair Lewis claimed that American letters exemplified a divorce of intellectual life from authenticism and reality.1994, Allene Cooper, “Science and the Reception of Poetry in Postbellum American Journals”, in American Periodicals, Vol. 4, p. 44 n4. From the entry authenticism
Meaning of exemplify
- verb To show or illustrate by example.
- verb To be an instance of or serve as an example.
- verb To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal.
Questions about the past tense of exemplify
- What is the past tense of exemplify?
- The past tense of exemplify is exemplified.
- What is the past participle of exemplify?
- The past participle of exemplify is exemplified.
- Is exemplify a regular or irregular verb?
- Exemplify is a regular verb: its past tense changes -y to -ied.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exemplify (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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