Sentence examples for a verb like from inspiring English sources

It doesn't make sense by itself, even though it still has a subject ("I") and a verb ("like").

This participle construction doesn't work for a verb like "falter".

A verb like flutter implies not just action but lightness, speed, motion and emotion.

Photoshop attained the rare status of a product that became a verb — like Google and Xerox.

And if Bing turns into a verb like, say, Xerox, TiVo or, well, Google, that would be nice too.

"Nursing" as a verb, like adjudge, is one of football's more quaint usages that we should do more to encourage.

Data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; no one ever uses "agendum" or "datum".

Dashes should be N-dashes rather than M-dashes or hyphens data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; no one ever uses "agendum" or "datum" datacentre, dataset dates Our style is: 21 July 2014 (day month year; no commas).

Dashes should be en dashes rather than em dashes or hyphens data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; you come across datum, the singular of data, about as often as you hear about an agendum datacentre, dataset dates Our style is: 21 July 2016 (day month year; no commas).

In English, normally any noun or pronoun in objective case can be used as an object of a verb: I like cars.

Using it as a conjunction, introducing a clause that contains a verb ("ride like you're riding a motorbike", "he behaved like he was drunk") will annoy many readers.