How to Use verbatim in a Sentence

verbatim

1 of 2 adverb
  • Who among us didn’t watch this movie so much, it could be recited verbatim by our teen years?
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Some of their words are used verbatim in the film to lay bare the horrors of the dictatorship.
    — Daniel Politi, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Most of them could have been printed verbatim as a newspaper column.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
  • The girls were accustomed to copying lessons verbatim from the blackboard.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • But most of the definitions — thousands of them — were drawn verbatim from Entick.
    — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • My daughter and her friend can recite the land acknowledgement verbatim.
    — Hazlitt, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Whenever a topic on the card is mentioned, cross it off and keep going — and no, the topic does not have to be mentioned verbatim.
    — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Ellsberg would be blindsided when excerpts of the papers were published verbatim.
    — Will Lester, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The case is drawn from astonishing real-life events and much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim from court transcripts.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Hours later, Bloys’ wording was posted verbatim to the comment section.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Key words are vital to get your résumé noticed but cramming in phrases lifted verbatim from the job description or make your résumé hard to read won’t get you far.
    — Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Wallace goes on to point at the petition on the petition circulator’s clipboard and read it verbatim.
    — Suhauna Hussainstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Numerous passages from this article appear to have been copied verbatim from previous sources.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2016
  • The company cited the same reasoning verbatim for layoffs in this week’s notice as in the previous layoff.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That question is a serious, long-time issue in the professional food world, where recipes can be reprinted verbatim without credit.
    — Kate Krader, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Later that day, Graham and two other observers quoted the policy verbatim in a challenge to the city election.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • At one point, Eno answered an inquiry about working with someone by repeating, almost verbatim, a story that appeared in the film.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Presenters take the deck, send it ahead to the audience and then proceed to read the slides verbatim during the pitch, thus patronizing the audience.
    — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • However, since the languages are identical, the interpreter just repeats the exact same words verbatim after each line.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The coach exploded the next season when a Texas reporter quoted Williams’ Southern drawl verbatim in a story.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Buster would record himself reading the script and reciting similar words in Clinton’s accent, so Owen could listen and repeat them verbatim.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And while many of the pages are copied verbatim from Wikipedia, there are notable changes on topics relating to Musk, his enemies and allies, and his far-right politics.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Note that titles, artists, and descriptions were taken verbatim from the MBTA website.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The executive was read a post that Molly had liked or saved from Instagram, and heard how it was copied almost verbatim in a note filled with words of self-loathing later found by her parents.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Ballard thought about his country, and at one point on Thursday, stopped and read verbatim from the Declaration of Independence.
    — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2020
  • But most of this week’s 38 inking entries (31 on the print page) stuck to the original meaning, often quoting verbatim from some newsmaker or other.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Hamlin also found that several passages from his own doctoral thesis were used verbatim in Dias’ dissertation, per the Times.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The complaint pointed to examples of the chatbot reproducing chunks of text pulled almost verbatim from New York Times articles.
    — Rachel Metz, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t Look Up is satire (a brilliant one, in my estimation), but that part could have come verbatim out of the Defense Department’s supply chain report.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The group polled viewers in three of those districts as the ads rolled out and found that constituents were quoting the messages of the ads verbatim - indicating to officials that their message is resonating, according to the group's polling memo.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019

verbatim

2 of 2 adjective
  • So many of us can still quote you the show verbatim.
    — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 15 June 2026
  • Or is there something about the verbatim text that was different?
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Lawyers on both sides have urged the high court to establish a clear right to a verbatim record in civil hearings.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • No need to scan through clunky, verbatim transcriptions to find a single detail.
    — Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • That became [almost] verbatim the social worker scene in the film.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Inserting it into a resume verbatim and leaving it just like that, is lazy.
    — Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These writings were preached, sometimes verbatim, from pulpits.
    — Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Levithan wrote this moment almost verbatim into the novel.
    — Katy Hershberger august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • To begin with, there’s no way an entire half-hour conversation could be recorded verbatim in only five pages.
    — Daniel Ginsberg, Quartz, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Many of the emails opposing the plan were virtually verbatim.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Sullivan said that a lot of the current rhetoric is verbatim with the documents and publications of the past.
    — Jemma Stephenson, al, 16 June 2023
  • That line was attributed to Siegal nearly verbatim in the story.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Thus, dialogue is not a verbatim one-to-one translation from English to sign language.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The scene’s dialogue is nearly verbatim to what Priscilla has written in her memoir.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That framing landed almost verbatim in the press coverage that followed.
    — Zachary Utz, STAT, 15 May 2026
  • In Olympia, Riefenstahl translates these noxious ideas to film, almost verbatim.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There are verbatim quotes from White House officials in this section, which is remarkable.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
  • Gone already are the days when using AI to write an essay meant copying and pasting its response verbatim.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Proponents argue recordings would solve a long-standing crisis that leaves many proceedings with no verbatim record.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • The appeals court ruled that those scenes would be understood as dramatizations, and not as verbatim transcripts taken from real life.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The memo released by the White House was not a verbatim transcript, but was instead based on the records of officials who listened to the call.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The message was recognizably Trumpian, and the fact that it was repeated verbatim dozens of times itself whiffed of thought control.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And in a stroke of genius, Satter equips her and the rest of the cast with verbatim dialogue recorded during the search, inquiry, and arrest.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
  • Although this is not a verbatim drama, interviews are the source of the dramatic material.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The video is a verbatim reenactment of the arrest except that Rome cast a white actress as Bland and a black actor as Encinia.
    — Ariel Parrella-Aureli, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
  • The article is overflowing with Miller quotes that Ciralsky says are all verbatim from audio recordings.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Four minutes later, the initial tweet was deleted and replaced with a verbatim statement that mentioned Karl instead of Carl.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Don’t go off half cocked Most states have adopted that language either verbatim or by direct reference to the federal provision.
    — Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • The point is not to polish and make what was originally spoken read as if it were written, but rather to make the verbatim transcripts of what was actually said readable in the first place.
    — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • The film was an identical experience every time, while the live session could vary in interesting ways even while retaining the same verbatim script.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021

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