verbs

Example Sentences

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For more about the literary present tense, see Verbs.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Nouns were often agreeable people, but Verbs were so damned bossy Two halls away, strings of kindergarteners in playgroups ran past hand in hand.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2019

For a while, the new wave band he formed with Rod — the Urban Verbs — was, in the words of one Washington Post critic, “the most powerful rock group in Washington.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2017

Verbs are not adjusted for person or number: “I sing” is mi kantas; “you sing,” vi kantas; “they sing,” ili kantas.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

Verbs should be lively little devils, and just adding ize to a word doesn’t give it life.

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