verbs

Example Sentences

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The study also showed that not all uses of mental verbs are equal.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Nouns and verbs occasionally do not match in tense.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

Gorsuch argues that Congress used present-tense verbs in one sliver of the ADA, which implies that Congress was only protecting people who were actively seeking or holding a job, not retirees.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

There’s more about couple in the chapter on verbs; see page 51.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner