Sentence examples for to verb from inspiring English sources
verb
To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
I wanted to verb the noun.
Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said Thursday that he liked Bing's potential to "verb up".
He handed me the shovel, let me turn it to verb.
I wonder what makes some things tempting to verb, and others not so much.
As soon as "bread" transitions from noun to verb form it transgresses the space between sandwich and non-sandwich.
The story goes steadily from subject to verb, rung to rung, up the ladder of life and good fortune.
In much the same way, while Watergate hangs over US politics like a dust cloud, the mid-Seventies noun-to-verb transition of "Don't Watergate me out of my money, mom" has altogether disappeared.
Words like podiuming and summiting, while sometimes perplexing or even irksome to outsiders, are part of a grand tradition of noun-to-verb transfers in English, which result in what linguists call "denominal verbs".
There are 20 pages devoted to the verb "to set".
In Finnish, -ko is added to a verb to indicate a question.
Verbs and tense (important! ) The particle " 着 " is suffixed to a verb to indicate the continuous aspect of an action.
