Sentence examples for intransitive verb from inspiring English sources

Or switch to an intransitive verb like "operate".

Intransitive verb: A verb that does not take an object.

mansack intransitive verb \ˈman-ˌsak\ Frantic pillage or plunder (of kitchen, closet, or country).

The question is whether one respects the traditional distinction between transitive and intransitive verb forms.

And that "enjoy", according to common English usage, is now very much an intransitive verb when used in the imperative.

Definitions like 'clean the car, perhaps' can only indicate an intransitive verb, since the direct object forms part of the definition.

In the last stanza, though, Housman rhymes three intransitive verbs – "nighs", "sighs", "replies".

His style is forcibly intransitive: verbs are deprived of their objects, prepositions are suppressed, conjunctions vanish, full-stops proliferate.

Theresa May says that the chemical attack "cannot go unchallenged", but that is a politician's love of intransitive verbs.

"His two new adjectives for everything are soothing and oppressive — only he uses them as intransitive verbs," Mr. Muhly said.

Throughout the meeting, he treated his successor as though he were a thickheaded schoolboy who needed drilling on intransitive verbs.