How to Use verb in a Sentence

verb

noun
  • Maybe needs is a better verb here.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Allyship is a verb, not a noun.
    — Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Then there’s a verb, then there’s the object.
    — David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Drill, in the hip-hop sense, is not just a genre name but also a verb.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In essence, the verb agrees with the meaning of the sentence.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Things need to be felt and understood through the gaze and not the verb.
    — Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Since the film, her name has become a household word—even a verb.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • An open society sees truth as process and method—more verb than noun.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • For subjects of verbs, use I, you, he, she, it, we, and they.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • The term can be used as a noun or verb, depending on the sentence.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • The first character is the verb to make, the second is to turn over.
    — Victor Wei Ke Yang, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a past-tense verb.
    — WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Its name comes from the Swahili verb, kujenga, which means to build.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2020
  • In its verb form, to be humbugged is to be deceived or be the victim of a hoax.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe and Douglas S. Wood, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
  • What haunted me, then and for many years, was the active verb in that sentence.
    — Trina Ryan, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The verb used for that intercession is va’yechal, the very term used in our text.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 6 July 2021
  • 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
  • For objects of verbs and prepositions, use me, you, him, her, it, us, and them.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • In Spanish, there are two different words for the verb to be.
    — Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The man can't get from a subject to a verb without removing a chunk of his own spleen.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 May 2015
  • The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Where are the verbs, the adjectives, the nouns in a photograph?
    — Errol Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The word first appeared as both a verb and a noun around circa 1800.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The use of kid as a verb also crops up in the 1800s, says Watts.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Reality is, in essence, all verb.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025

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