verbs
Example Sentences
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"I had prepared a lesson on imperative verbs," Piantino, who also works as a teacher with other players and coaches from Brazil and abroad, recalled.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
The study also showed that not all uses of mental verbs are equal.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
I wish, when I was back in that French class, that I had connected the conjugations, verbs, and gendered nouns to something grander.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
