Sentence examples for active verbs from inspiring English sources

Where are the active verbs?

Active verbs predict best-sellers better than passive verbs.

"Bush favors active verbs and short sentences," Rove said.

When plant biologists speak of their subjects, they use active verbs and vivid images.

She shuns metaphor and doesn't bother to riffle the thesaurus for active verbs.

Other times it required a quick lesson on the importance of active verbs.

It is an active verb.

"I want to rethink surrender as an active verb," he says.

There are heart-rendingly honest revelations for psychologists to pore over: "Love was not an active verb in my family or in my life.

At times, the piece feels like a satire on group creativity with one self-preoccupied actor crying, "I don't know what my active verb is".

In Mexico and other places where kidnapping is common, the word "disappeared" is an active verb and also an adjective to describe the missing.