Sentence examples for operative verbs from inspiring English sources
The operative verbs here are not "shop" and "text" but "maim" and "run", and also "stab", "gore" and "filter pond water with iodine droplets".
But the operative verb here is "look".
On 2002 Web sites, the operative verb is "'02-ing," as in, "Happy '02-ing'02-ing
The operative verb is "was," because Brittney Griner and her defending national champion Baylor team were summarily knocked out of the final 16 by a wild-shooting Louisville team.
Note, please, that the operative verb on Facebook is "to friend," not the more conventional (and sincere) "to befriend"; and so by a linguistic sleight of hand, we are empowered to create an association that stops short of being a community, whose whole is considerably less than the sum of its parts.
Still, Pendergraph's operative verb "disappear" is a rare acknowledgement of "illegal" people.
The operative ICE verb "disappear" in itself is a rare acknowledgment of migrants (albeit a violent one), whose terminal plight along the border is often like the air we breathe--invisible but everywhere.
One Republican operative has even coined a political verb, promising to "Dukakis-ize" the Democratic candidate, whoever it turns out to be.
Operative words are action words, a.k.a verbs.
