verbs

Example Sentences

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"I had prepared a lesson on imperative verbs," Piantino, who also works as a teacher with other players and coaches from Brazil and abroad, recalled.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

The study also showed that not all uses of mental verbs are equal.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

They had no way to indicate verbs or adjectives, no way to distinguish subject from object, and only a limited vocabulary.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann