Sentence examples for verb up from inspiring English sources

Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said Thursday that he liked Bing's potential to "verb up".

The name, he told The New York Times, "works globally" and has the potential "to verb up".

In short, the campaign seeks "to verb up" the Vanguard name, to borrow a phrase from Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft.

Being able to verb up can be helpful".

But he did add what is a familiar warning from a company with a name that is verbing up very quickly: "If we come across a confusing or damaging project, the recourse to act responsibly to protect both users and our brand is important".

And, often, a very lucrative verb, dressing up everything from alternative medicines to anti-aging products.

The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

The second half of (20) contains (at least) two presupposition triggers: the definite description "her holy underwear" and the aspectual verb "give up", which trigger the presuppositions that Geraldine used to have and wear holy underwear, respectively.

But ask COCA which past-tense verbs show up more frequently in fiction compared with, say, academic prose, and things start to get interesting: the top five are "grimaced," "scowled," "grunted," "wiggled" and "gritted".

The nouns "backup," "login," and "setup" are each one word, but the verbs "back up," "log in," and "set up" are two words.

Since 1942, the verb phrase screw up has meant only "bungle, botch, mishandle".