Sentence examples for the direct object from inspiring English sources

To the extent that physics is linked to the transcendent world of objective reality, it cannot arise as the direct object of intuition, but must, like the transcendent world itself, be presented in symbolic form; more exactly, as the result of a process of symbolic construction.

(The direct object is "what").

Make it "whom," the direct object of "has seen".

The direct object is reached with few if any conditional phrases in the way.

Sometimes they have been the direct object of hunters of feathers and eggs.

"Bestow" is a transitive verb; the thing given is the direct object.

But we mistakenly treat it as though it's the direct object of "reported".

The direct object of "attacked" is not "whomever" but the entire relative clause: "attacked whoever answered".

It can't simultaneously work as the direct object of "has credited," as we seemed to hope.

"Pilfer" functions like "steal," not like "cheat" or "defraud" — the direct object should be the thing stolen, not the victim.

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