How to Use noun in a Sentence

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  • Allyship is a verb, not a noun.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Would like a noun here) pick up and drop things with the switch of a light.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2017
  • And if there are no nouns, then what is acting out the verbs?
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Free isn’t a noun, as the stylebook points out, so doesn’t take a for.
    — WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
  • An open society sees truth as process and method—more verb than noun.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The term can be used as a noun or verb, depending on the sentence.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • The word is now more meme than noun, perhaps more color than concept.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • At the heart of this case is a question of what creative, as a noun, truly means.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Don't ask for a noun for Christmas, ask for a stroll or something like that.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • But reconstruction didn’t end with nouns and verbs.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The transformer figures out that wants and cash are both verbs (both words can also be nouns).
    — Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023
  • The word can also be used as a noun to describe the spirit of cycling.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • As a noun, pif is slang for nose, and au pif can mean randomly, roughly or off the top of your head.
    — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Blutbuch is a compound noun of Blut (blood) and Buch (book).
    — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This is one of the rare big-brained small words that work equally well as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • To be a citizen, in that framing of things, is to embrace the verb as well as the noun.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an eight-letter noun.
    — WSJ, 7 July 2023
  • Sly and his multiracial band at their peak, reminding you that funk is both a noun and a verb.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2021
  • The word first appeared as both a verb and a noun around circa 1800.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the logic of this prohibition taints any noun that refers to a person.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Laughter is a noun with many possible adverbs.
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter plural noun.
    — wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • Long-term changes in the meaning of nouns, verbs and adjectives are also routine.
    — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Doom—once a simple noun, often attached to its twin, gloom—has taken on a life of its own in the past few years.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a seven-letter noun.
    — WSJ, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The problem is that the phrase itself is now being used as a modifier to a noun.
    — Jakub Lamik, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Perhaps these two nouns mesh in the recognition that the gateway to the soul is speech, which is strong but humble.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The field of aviation is unique in that the women themselves have embraced their two-noun term—to a degree.
    — Rachel Lance, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
  • As a result, Life of the Party doesn’t live up to either of the nouns in its title.
    — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • Details, such as how to define the adjectives and how to pay for what the nouns denote, were for another day.
    — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 23 June 2019

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