How to Use verbiage in a Sentence

verbiage

noun
  • The editor removed some of the excess verbiage from the article.
  • The broadcast would be too heavy; there would be too much verbiage.
    — Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • More than one attendee looked a bit confused by the verbiage.
    — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The team doctors do not give the verbiage to reporters; the team makes that call.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • My father, who was a fine slinger of verbiage, was a huge fan of the semicolon.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2023
  • That change in verbiage could go a long way to helping voters focus.
    — Tim Graham, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The tabloid media, on the other hand, is not so precise in its verbiage.
    — Emma Sandler, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The trustees relooked at the policy late last month and voted to keep the verbiage the same.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • The tasting was blind, which spared us from the daunting label verbiage.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 3 May 2018
  • As of Sunday, that verbiage has since been deleted.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Trillin would never reach for such off-the-shelf and impolite verbiage.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • That verbiage sounds more like a lawyer or politician than one of the world’s leading shipyards.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Having that same voice and verbiage is so critical.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The verbiage doesn’t have to cover each of the factors and can simply allude to some of them.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The verbiage doesn’t have to cover each of the factors and can simply allude to some of them.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There had been also been lot of past-tense verbiage being used in the final days of the season.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • The verbiage is full of great wordplay and wit, just like a Larry Hart song.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Their endless verbiage makes some long for silence — for the bliss of quiet and the end of the impolitic phrase.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • That’s not gonna be an issue at the next level, regardless of the system or amount of verbiage.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • For example, a machine can help craft verbiage in your email to garner more clicks to your website.
    — Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That’s eye-rolling verbiage to the 99% of us looking for a fast, comforting pick-me-up.
    — Sam Alden, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The verbiage in Cook and Moore's skit is what sent Hodgman on this journey.
    — Emily Zemler, Esquire, 28 May 2015
  • The team used a nine-point scale for grading college prospects, and the verbiage had to match the numerical grade.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Stick to a classic, clean, easy-to-read font in black, and use professional greetings and verbiage.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2019
  • His verbiage leaves the door open for skepticism, however.
    — Andrew Hughes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The verbiage in the post is very similar to the text in that article and, at times, identical.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
  • Those tools require more verbiage and operational time before the snap.
    — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • First, they are set up for serious short squeezes because the surrounding verbiage is so toxic.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
  • An onus is on the quarterback to handle the verbiage, pre-snap adjustments and option routes.
    — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • The opposing locker room remains the same size, but with World Cup verbiage on the wall.
    — Pete Grathoff june 8, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026

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