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Example sentences for "verb"

Lexicographically close words:
verandas; verano; veratrine; verax; veray; verba; verbal; verbally; verbatim; verbaux
  1. In Timon of Athens we find secure used as verb "Secure thy heart.

  2. In the "Alter Index sive Glossarium" of Ainsworth's Dictionary is the verb "Securo, as .

  3. One of Holmes' characters wished to change a vowel of the verb to love, and conjugate it--I have forgotten how far.

  4. I have not met with the verb fesomnen anywhere else, and it is not mentioned in Stratmann and MA¤tzner.

  5. To take a present instance: the verb transpire formerly conveyed very expressively its correct meaning, viz.

  6. The ordinary derivation connects his name with the verb susamu, to be impetuous.

  7. Motooeri proposed, and most European scholars have accepted, a derivation of Izanagi and Izanami from izanafu, a verb which means to invite, to instigate, the terminations gi and mi meaning respectively male deity and female deity.

  8. Tama contains the root of the verb tabu, to give, more often met with in its lengthened form tamafu.

  9. The verb "to cope" was very much in use at that period.

  10. Two beings could hardly have laughed as much as we had done when impossible situations had arisen, and when the verb "to cope" seemed ineffective and life just one "gentle" thing after the other.

  11. Feto itself is from an old verb feuere, "to generate, to produce," possibly related to fui and our be.

  12. Trobador is the oblique case of the nominative trobaire, a substantive from the verb trobar, in modern French trouver.

  13. One is whether the verb is imperative or interrogative.

  14. If one considers the use of the verb in James 1:6 and 2:4, probably the idea of decision is the true one here.

  15. The tense of the verb (present durative) implies that some of them had been doing precisely this thing.

  16. However, this verb is used in Sirach 12:11 of a mirror dimmed with rust; but the Hebrew word is used also of filth.

  17. The verb means to distinguish, but the resultant idea is extremely variable.

  18. Homer uses the verb meaning to turn milk into cheese (Od.

  19. Paul in Romans 4 lays emphasis on the verb "believed," and James stresses the obedience which proves the reality of the trust.

  20. The same verb occurs here as in the other appearances of Jesus.

  21. It is the verb in Psalm 42:1: "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

  22. Peter (1 Peter 1:7) explains the adjective by the verb (tested by fire).

  23. The worker of these remedial measures is called kàngtòk abàng, and the verb is ingtòk.

  24. Compound roots are very extensively used, the principal verb being put first, then the modifying supplements, and last the time-index.

  25. These adverbial supplements to verbs, inserted between the principal verb and the tense-suffixes, are a very characteristic feature of the language, and their proper use is one of the most difficult things for a learner to master.

  26. The form of the negative verb is altogether misunderstood.

  27. Dèt may also be used for the present when the state indicated by the verb is one that began in the past and still continues: e.

  28. Note the doubling of the verb ràk-dun-hèt-lo to indicate repetition of the action in the case of each person.

  29. Similarly, in Boro a negative verb is formed by adding the particle -a.

  30. The negative verb in Mikir is formed by suffixing the particle -e to the positive root, when the latter begins with a vowel.

  31. The negative verb is a very interesting and remarkable feature of the language.

  32. It is I who is to receive the appointment:" say, who am to receive; who is in the first person, and the verb of which it is the subject must be in the same.

  33. Flew is part of the verb to fly; fled, of to flee.

  34. The grammatical number of a verb should agree with that of its subject, and not of its predicate.

  35. In changing from a past tense to the present, when the same nominative remains, the form of the verb should continue unaltered.

  36. The verb must agree with its subject in person and in number; if the noun is in the singular, the verb that belongs to it must also be in the singular.

  37. It may be remarked, not only from this example, but from general study, that the verb "to be" as a copula or predicant does not have any place in sign language.

  38. The Vulgate renders the verb in the passive: "Tribulabo eos ita ut inveniantur.

  39. But the form of the Hebrew verb seems to indicate rather some contemporary trouble; perhaps plundering raids by an Egyptian army, which about this time was besieging the Philistine stronghold of Ashdod (Herod.

  40. The Hebrew verb does not admit of the rendering in the perf.

  41. When the verb precedes, it is not absolutely necessary that it should agree with the subject in gender and number; but the use of the singular is, nevertheless, remarkable.

  42. Even when followed by an accusative, the verb is found with this signification in Deut.

  43. Of a material return the verb שוב with על is thus used in Prov.

  44. But it is very doubtful whether the verb כרה has the signification "to purchase.

  45. Maddy knew well what "conjugate" meant, but that verb Amo, what could it mean?

  46. Perhaps, then, you can conjugate the verb Amo," Guy said, his manner indicating the doubt he was beginning to feel as to her qualifications.

  47. This is why the verb mourir, expressing the state of being dead, as soon as the action of dying is over, has to be conjugated with etre.

  48. When afterwards he finds that the verb sortir is conjugated with the auxiliary etre, he changes j'ai into je suis.

  49. Being a little bit of a philologist, I assume this verb comes from the common (very common) noun, 'Arry.

  50. This verb signifies to wish, to resolve, to exercise volition, in reference to a certain thing or action.

  51. This verb always agrees with an agent in the second person.

  52. Most certainly, if be is the principal verb in the first person, and let the auxiliary.

  53. The form of the verb is changed when it agrees with the second or third person singular; more on account of habit, I apprehend, than from any reason, or propriety as to a change of meaning in the word.

  54. These expressions differ very little in meaning, but the verb have is the same in each case.

  55. Why, our books tell us, that the verb to love is third person.

  56. Wisely, we are taught, expresses the "manner or quality" of the verb act.

  57. A verb active expresses an action, and necessarily implies an agent, and an object acted upon; as, to love, I love Penelope.

  58. The third is constructed into a question by placing the verb before the agent, or by prefixing another word before the agent, and then placing the former verb as an infinitive after it; as, Does he write?

  59. Let me love," in the conjugation of the verb to love!

  60. Have= has also been reckoned as an auxiliary by the "helping verb grammars," which has no other duty to perform than help conjugate other verbs thro some of their moods and tenses.

  61. It should be noticed that in Latin, distinctly is the adverb of the verb distinguish.

  62. In giving her a lesson, her mistress, with a view of testing her knowledge of the verb in question, once bade her "strike Eugenie.

  63. Verbs such as jeter, to throw down, poser, to lay down, naturally introduced the use of prepositions to express the mode in which the verb acts upon the substantive.

  64. I always made her perform the action signified by the verb which she had learned, and thus the lesson became quite an amusement to her.

  65. Footnote 7: The nominative pronoun was not quite indispensable to the verb in Shakspere's time.

  66. The word may come of the verb wind, from its meaning 'to manage by shifts or expedients': Barclay.

  67. The verb gyve, of which the passive participle is here used, is rarer.

  68. The verb to hent, to lay hold of, is not so rare.

  69. And Phrynichus also uses a verb derived from the word in his Tragedian-- 'Tis sweet to eat fried meat, at any feast For which one has been at no cost oneself.

  70. For it is derived from the verb =marmairô=, to glisten, because it is a transparent stone.

  71. Gunners are a laconic people, and their language is as economical of words as a proposition in Euclid; their sentences resemble those Oriental languages in which the verb is regarded as a superfluous impertinence.

  72. From the French verb leser, to hurt, to injure.

  73. The consensus, if expressed by a verb of the present tense, accipio te, constitutes a valid marriage without copula.

  74. Opposed to this is a promise, expressed by a verb in the future tense, accipiam te, which is binding only when followed by copula.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    auxiliary; intransitive; tip; transitive