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Example sentences for "verbal"

Lexicographically close words:
veratrine; verax; veray; verb; verba; verbally; verbatim; verbaux; verbe; verbenas
  1. The lower house penned petulant representations, and the archbishop answered them by verbal reprehension and admonition.

  2. There is quite enough in the above verbal vagaries of our philosopher to provoke a volume of comment.

  3. The theory of verbal inspiration is refuted by the two facts: 1.

  4. The dramatic episode and the verbal form in opera constitute such a restriction, introducing a vein of unreality that is fatal to aesthetic expression.

  5. He tells me that, at this point, he was able to send you a verbal message by a consumptive prisoner about to be repatriated.

  6. Herter's message to you was verbal for safety.

  7. Then he sent the news in verbal messages to his nephew, the paramount chief in the siege, who in turn communicated it to Her Majesty's officers in command.

  8. They appealed to the law-courts and adduced verbal evidence in support of their purchase and ownership of the farm; the sale had been a public one.

  9. Mr. Jabavu sent a verbal message, with the young lady who had taken in our card to him, to the effect that he was not prepared to see us.

  10. Three weeks before our visit, the farmer came to cancel Kgabale's verbal contract with him and to turn the family into unpaid servants, in return for the privilege of squatting on his farm.

  11. At this time of the investment General Cronje sent verbal messages to the chief advising him not to mix himself and his people in a white man's quarrel.

  12. Gymnastic by itself makes a man's nature too savage and violent: he acquires no relish for knowledge, comes to hate discourse, and disdains verbal persuasion.

  13. They did not understand that verbal definitions in such a case will only perform their functions so long as there is no dispute about the matters which they are intended to define: that is to say, so long as there is no need for them.

  14. A Virgin and Child, by Hans Memmeling," was not reprinted by Rossetti, but is included (with a few verbal alterations made by him in MS.

  15. A Dance of Nymphs, by Andrea Mantegna," was republished by Rossetti, with some verbal alterations.

  16. Again the whole tenor of this passage shows that it refers to verbal communication between them.

  17. The principal verbs and verbal expressions thus used are: (a.

  18. The gerund is a neuter verbal substantive, used only in the oblique cases of the singular.

  19. The infinitive is in its origin a verbal substantive.

  20. In the course of time such adverbs became verbal prefixes; the verbs compounded with them may take the case, accusative or ablative, required by the meaning of the compound.

  21. The gerundive is a verbal adjective (899).

  22. These ladies, practised in all smelling-bottle and cologne soothings, supplied also verbal comfort.

  23. To condense twenty-three years of a man's life into some five or six thousand words requires a verbal economy amounting to parsimony.

  24. When people have the law in their own hands and Society at their back, they can afford to be deaf to mere verbal protest.

  25. It sometimes permits itself the relief of verbal expression!

  26. It spread itself large over his countenance, finding verbal expression in an utterly astounded gasp.

  27. But then it would hardly be necessary to require verbal communication of such a condition; a brief written statement to the effect would have sufficed.

  28. A verbal message was now our only resource; however, we contrived to deliver it in such terms, that neither nurse nor her son could possibly conceive any suspicion from it of the present situation of our affairs.

  29. One may easily get lost in verbal mysteries about the difference between quality of feeling and feeling of quality, between receiving and reconstructing the knowledge of a reality.

  30. This, and the following articles have received a very slight verbal revision, consisting mostly in the omission of redundancy.

  31. Meanwhile much, even of this common descriptive truth, is couched in verbal symbols.

  32. But I resisted, and while claiming for myself personal freedom, according to our verbal agreement, I allowed her absolute liberty, and let her go where she pleased.

  33. The French ministers made a verbal declaration to the same effect.

  34. You will therefore perceive that there was no verbal agreement in existence between Mr. Moore and me, at the time I made a verbal agreement with you to deliver the Memoirs to be destroyed.

  35. Army by the Association, to which kind and patient verbal answers were returned.

  36. By verbal similarity, or homonymy, a pun.

  37. From it emanates another being that we, by verbal similarity, also call light, and which we acknowledge to be incorporeal.

  38. In any case, lightness is only a verbal similarity (a "homonym") unless it be understood to mean diminution of weight.

  39. The only point of interest connected with his school life is the record (in his own words) of Airy's remarkable verbal memory.

  40. There was no agreement about its publication, except a verbal one.

  41. The verbal and written statements of numerous planters also confirm the declaration that emancipation was a measure solely of selfish policy.

  42. By secondary evidence is meant a copy of the document, or verbal accounts of its contents.

  43. BA) it stands before 2 Esdras--the verbal translation of the Hebrew Ezra and Nehemiah.

  44. Chiefly in favour of the class of cottars and small feuars, and for convenience in straightening marches, the law will consider the most informal memoranda, and even a verbal agreement, if supported by the subsequent possession.

  45. The expression "parol evidence," which includes written as well as verbal evidence, has often been applied to the extrinsic evidence produced for the purpose of varying the nature of the transaction embodied in a document.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verbal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    authentic; auxiliary; candid; conversational; correct; enunciated; formal; functional; genuine; good; grammatic; grammatical; honest; inartificial; interacting; interrogatory; intransitive; lawful; legitimate; lexical; lifelike; lingual; linguistic; literal; natural; naturalistic; nominal; oral; original; parol; participial; prepositional; pronounced; pure; questioning; real; realistic; responsive; rightful; said; semantic; simple; sincere; sounded; speech; spoken; sterling; structural; substantive; symbolic; symbolical; syntactic; telepathic; traditional; transitive; unadulterated; unaffected; unassuming; uncolored; undisguised; undistorted; unexaggerated; unflattering; unimagined; unqualified; unromantic; unvarnished; unwritten; uttered; verbal; verbatim; vocabulary; vocal; voiced