verbs

Example Sentences

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They focused on how frequently mental verbs such as "learns," "means," and "knows" were used alongside terms like AI and ChatGPT.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

She renders the fearless quality of Gehry’s work in vivid verbs, pointing out that if Wright “broke open the box in his Prairie homes, Frank Gehry has ruptured the building-as-box completely—destroyed it in fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

"We started with the basics - the alphabet, nouns, verbs, present continuous," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

If you don’t trust me, just turn the sentences around in your mind and you’ll end up with the correct verbs: Of the authors who say it best, he is one.

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