Sentence examples for appropriate verb from inspiring English sources

Searching for the appropriate verb to describe their canoodling, we thought perhaps it was time we went to see some bands.

The English material entailed a basic problem asking for an appropriate verb based on the subject, person, and tense.

On the other hand, the grammar items mostly dealt with appropriate verb tense, subject-verb agreement, count versus non-count nouns, possessive pronouns, conjunctions, and passive voice, and did not require a deep understanding of the content of the passage.

"Straightening out" is the more appropriate verb -- the tower recovered almost an inch of its vertical incline between 2001 and 2013.

After waiting in a late afternoon lineup (an afternoon lineup!!!) to get in I saddle up to the bar, order myself a beer and a shot called a Mind Fuck (it was either that or one called Red-Headed Slut) and let myself soak in the ambience, soak being the appropriate verb because it felt like I was being held down and pissed on by a bunch of a marauding jocks.

An appropriate verb was defined as one that describes what the presented noun might do, or what it might be used for.

Brain imaging studies have since shown that the right cerebellar hemisphere is active when participants are required to generate appropriate verbs in response to target nouns [17].

By way of voice lessons, wearing severe suits and her own aggression, Margaret Thatcher mastered it (the verb seems appropriate).

The study confirms that cognitive methods are much more suited for EFL learners in the learning of polysemous phrasal verbs and appropriate L1 input is necessary when a new teaching method is introduced.

In a recent study with a sample of 6-year-old twins, we again measured phonological STM, but this time we also took a measure of children's ability to add appropriate inflectional endings to verbs (Bishop, Adams, & Norbury, 2006).

When this form emphasizes the collection of items as a unified group, a singular verb may be appropriate: "There was a bunch of grapes on the table".