Sentence examples for The verb of from inspiring English sources

The verb of saying in the internal conjunct is then realized as 話 waa with the high rising tone.

Drone exhibited unusual habit of repeating the verb of all questions asked him.

Despite my efforts, "mull" remains the verb of choice for headline writers trying to describe government officials' attempts to get a handle on the financial crisis.

"Spool" becomes "Pool" in the second line of the last stanza, where it might be the verb of a command, or a noun suggesting a pool reflecting heart, bones and hands.

One night after a particularly forlorn reading, he answers the motel phone and encounters the woman of his wet dreams, Nicole (Kathryn Aselton), who soon benefits from his affection for books in which throbbing is the verb of choice.

According to the OED, just 10 years ago the word did not exist, "but the verb (of a man: to explain something needlessly, overbearingly, or condescendingly, especially to a woman, in a manner thought to reveal a patronising or chauvinistic attitude) and the concept it describes now have a firm foothold in the language".

A columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, warning of "verb vandals," said in October that the verbing of nouns like medal and podium "sounds like Newspeak to me".

Delight in illusion honors the verbs of accomplishment, not the objects of achievement.

In some cases the trouble lay in the fact that the verbs of different senses behave differently.

And the more I embrace that, the more I focus on the verbs of life and the less I focus on defining it.

The verbs of most aspect pairs differ in one of two ways: by prefix or by suffix.