noun

Example Sentences

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We’re taught how to teach the students to write both print and cursive letters, how to sound out words from syllables, and how to create sentences by joining together verbs and nouns.

From Literature

Mr. Burke eschews “terrorist” as a noun, because “I do not think reducing complex individuals to a single-word description is helpful.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The Merriam-Webster promotional copy makes a point to mention the inclusion of the TikTok slang “rizz,” whose noun form is defined as “romantic appeal or charm.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The noun in “Is This Thing On?” is a marriage, not a microphone, although a microphone turns out to be a novel way to restart a relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t think there’s any directive that you have to have a noun in your title that refers to a woman, whether it’s wife, girl, sister.

From Salon