How to use verb in a sentence
40 example sentences · noun, verb
Verb means a word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. Example: “The word “speak” is an English verb.”
Examples of verb by meaning
nounA word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
nounAn action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
nounA named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
- You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways.1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321
- The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach
verbTo use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised.a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs.1993 January 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
- Nouns should never be verbed.1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LAT_EX, page 8
verbUsed as a placeholder for any verb.
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology
- The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store.1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse
More sentences with verb
- Although written the same, the words lead (the metal) and lead (the verb) have totally different etymologies.From the entry etymology
- The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.From the entry imperative
- Many languages, including English, use auxiliary verbs in constructing the passive voice.From the entry passive voice
- "To buy" is an irregular English verb: its past simple and past participle tense is "bought".From the entry irregular
- "Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".From the entry regular
- Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.From the entry ending
- The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.From the entry paradigm
- The verb to run is strong, not weak, because the past tense is ran.From the entry weak
- “Hast” is the second person singular of the German verb “haben”.From the entry second person
- “Habt” is the second person plural of the German verb “haben”.From the entry second person
- The verb can is defective in most English dialects, as it lacks an infinitive.From the entry defective verb
- He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.From the entry drum
- A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.From the entry construct
- Should we classify "make up" as an idiom or as a phrasal verb?From the entry classify
- There are 3 cardinal degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.From the entry transitivity
- In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.From the entry phrasal verb
- A: "Someone needs to label all these words as nouns or verbs."From the entry don't look at me
- The subjects of the intransitive verbs "fall" and "burn" are experiencers.From the entry experiencer
- Though derived from a verb phrase, "kickass" can be used interjectionally.From the entry interjectionally
- The verb "take" is delexical in the phrase "take a shower".From the entry delexical
- The Zamenhofian verb komentarii ("to comment") is very often replaced by komenti.From the entry Zamenhofian
- The most important isogloss dividing Old Low German is the plural conjugation of the verb.From the entry Old Low German
- In English the inflectional suffix -ed is used to form the past of most regular verbs.From the entry inflectional suffix
- The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".From the entry transitive
- Much the most common verb in complex-intransitive clauses is be.From the entry most
- This verb takes the dative; that verb takes the genitive.From the entry take
- In the English language, ‘sleep’ is an intransitive verb.From the entry intransitive verb
- Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.From the entry tense
- The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.From the entry sentence
- The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”From the entry impersonal
- "Are" is the first-person plural of the verb "to be".From the entry first-person plural
Meaning of verb
- noun A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- noun Any word; a vocable.
- noun An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
Questions about verb in a sentence
- How do you use verb in a sentence?
- Verb is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The word “speak” is an English verb.”
- What is a short sentence with verb?
- “Nouns should never be verbed.”
- What does verb mean?
- Verb means a word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
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