Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for verbalize. Search instead for verbillige.
Definitions

verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

But Elliot also has no idea how to verbalize his desires.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

It’s really hard to verbalize how I am feeling at this point.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

I had no energy left to verbalize some First Lady-like excuse or even wave to my friends.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

When he talks, Parsons seems to be unraveling his thoughts as he verbalizes them.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

At one point while recording notes, in a moment of particularly on-the-nose screenwriting, Kelley verbalizes “Someone could write a book” and off he dashes to the library with his German interpreter, a baby-faced U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,

From Washington Times Apr. 14, 2021

The philosopher Alva Noë, in voice-over, verbalizes questions that might be going through an audience member’s head, like: “Why are they doing that?”

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2018

He verbalizes it, and the sound of his own voice re-enforces it in him.

From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper

And it is, of course, odd that they verbalized these fears by simply importing wholesale a hacky discourse from the U.S.

From Slate Jan. 5, 2025

In “Happiness Falls,” she makes it clear that joy needn’t always be verbalized.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

Justin Nelson, one of the attorneys representing Dominion, verbalized his concerns.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2023

Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2023

It was as if he believed that they shared a series of intrinsic jokes that did not need to be verbalized.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Once I started verbalizing my need for alone time, and stopped tiptoeing around his feelings, I found that our relationship started to improve — both on vacations and in day-to-day life too.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2025

Only 81 out of the 100 survey respondents provided a definition, perhaps due to the challenge of verbalizing a working description.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

And that’s precisely what art history is — taking the visual and verbalizing it.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2024

Most Date Lab participants when pressed have a difficult time verbalizing why the spark didn’t manifest.

From Washington Post Oct. 6, 2022

But they did not talk about it, as though verbalizing it would make Baby’s death imminent, until the morning she sat watching Baby sleep while Odenigbo got dressed for work.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




Vocabulary lists containing verbalize


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training