verbs
Example Sentences
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Even when mental verbs were used, they were not always anthropomorphic.
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
My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
