gerund

Example Sentences

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“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”

From Los Angeles Times

Yglesias named his Substack “Slow Boring,” after a 1919 lecture by the German sociologist Max Weber titled “Politics as a Vocation,” wherein “boring” is not an adjective of dullness but a gerund of diligence.

From Washington Post

His intentional use of a gerund in the title allows “entertaining” to be read as both doing a thing and being a thing.

From New York Times

It’s also one of the activities Koenig recommends for parents to introduce their kids to “musiking,” her preferred gerund for describing the act of playing with melody, rhythm and movement.

From Washington Post

The “being” in “being with my students” is a gerund and gets the possessive pronoun “my.”

From Washington Post