Sentence examples for verb to which from inspiring English sources

(A verb stem is that part of a verb to which inflectional changes changes indicating tense, mood, number, etc.—are added).

The verb to which an IA applies can be a ditransitive in a double applicative, as in 81a.

An impersonal verb form is a verb to which no pronoun has been attached, as carë (sg).

The verb "to composite," which Shine himself made up, means to embellish or to embroider reality.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution coined the angry verb "to bork," which meant to destroy a nominee by whatever means necessary.

Mayor Poulson's sin was to mention again the delicate verb "to bury", which Mr Khrushchev thought he had interred once and for all at the National Press Club in Washington.

(Some years ago, Barry Norman coined the verb "to rample", which he defined as "an ability to reduce a man to helplessness though a chilly sensuality").

The term feeling is a verbal noun denoting the action of the verb to feel, which derives etymologically from the Middle English verb felen, "to perceive by touch, by palpation".

Among its lexical riches is the verb to humbel, which Stout Angus defines as "to reduce protruberant parts, as driftwood is humbeled by striking against the rocks, or as the beard of corn is knocked off by … thrashing with a flail".

One of his friends coined a verb, "to Kassig," which meant "to selflessly put oneself in harm's way in order to help others in need, all the while looking suave and sexy".

Lida Maxwell, who teaches in the politics department at Trinity College, writes about the verb "to have," which she suggests can be interpreted not as a verb of possession but "in the way we might 'have' a meeting, or a dinner party, or a conference, or a convention.