adverb

Example Sentences

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The adverb is apt because dividend-paying stocks have long struggled.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

For example, the prefix er-, for “external,” yielded the adjective erbungoi, for “beautiful”; the verb eranye, meaning “to assemble”; and the adverb erchek, or “fast.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023

She then asked whether the word “structure” was a noun, verb, adjective or adverb.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023

For them, it is just an adverb or verb they use calmly and constantly.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

The best place to put a word like finally—that is, an adverb, a word that characterizes a verb—is directly before the action being described: in this case, go or gone.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner