Sentence examples for verb something from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, Martin Ott, co-CEO of the new Skrill Holdings, appears to suggest that the company now wants to become a verb, something that Google and others have been determined to clamp down on for fear of risking their trademark.

I first point out how the word "discipline" is used as a verb: Something you do onto another.

Allot is a verb, something you do, rather than an adjective that describes something.

"When I read through the errata, part of what I'm realizing is 80 to 90 percent is rinky-dink stuff that has to do with a dropped 'S' for a verb or something like that," Mr. Amirault said.

Ripassare means re-pass, go over again – as in: dovete ripassare questo verbo (you must go over this verb again) – something we were told repeatedly by our kindly, if weary, teacher at the language school I attended when I first came to Rome.

Second, with gender understood as a verb – as something that people do rather than an internal essence of what one is – therein opened up the possibility that gender relations could be intervened upon as patterns of behaviour and/or social practices.

Remember, a verb is something you can do, or it can express a state of being or existence.

"Certainly that business of the short, meaningless phrases without verbs is something that Blair used – I dare say it's something that Hitler used," but he added that these have been popular across the board and still continue to be so now, such as with slogans like the Scottish independence No campaign's "Better Together".

One idea that has been used in such characterizations, and that is also present in Aristotle, is that logical expressions do not, strictly speaking, signify anything; or, that they do not signify anything in the way that substantives, adjectives and verbs signify something.

Objectify: (verb) to treat something as a mere object, to deny its dignity.

To make it interesting, effect is also a verb, meaning make something happen: I hope my book will effect a change in standards of reading and writing.