Sentence examples for verb used from inspiring English sources
They merely 'Maintain' (a transitive verb used intransitively); they maintain themselves in place.
A good run, as used in the previous sentence, is an example of a verb used as a noun.
Think of it as a verb used as a noun: I like running, smoking is bad for your health, etc.
"That's a verb used in ski racing – chicked – to chick someone," explained Canadian alpine racer Larisa Yurkiw.
In Apple stories that take place in restaurants or hotels or even newsrooms, the verb used to describe his manner of entry is normally "swept in".
I "have to" – in the special sense of that verb used by critics – eat out in new London restaurants regularly, and the single most striking thing about them is how amazingly full they always are.
For every noun verb pair (72 pairs per subject), we assessed the semantic distance between the noun and the verb, using latent semantic analysis (LSA).
(Over time, verbs used to characterize his pianism included "barrel," "tear," "thunder" and "let loose").
We have started to make an informal survey of the relative number of adjectives and verbs used in a recent "Notes and Comment department.
He invoked more present-tense verbs, used more words related to positive emotions and more words that reflected social connection to other people.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, April 16 , 1955P. 34 The writer ridicules the verbs used by "Time" magazine to describe the way people say things and the way they get about.
