Sample Sentences forverve (editor-reviewed)
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The pianist performed with such verve that the audience leapt to their feet before the final notes faded.verve = energy and enthusiasm
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Her speech lacked the verve of her earlier campaigns, sounding tired and rehearsed.verve = vitality (energy and enthusiasm)
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She attacked the project with characteristic verve.verve = vigor
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I finish with equal verve. (source)verve = energetic style
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My siblings and I would muffle our laughter as Mommy dug into hymns with verve and gusto: (source)verve = energy and enthusiasm
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But the objection being raised was not due to the phrase's overall lack of verve; rather it was due to the word facilitate. (source)verve = vitality
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On Christmas Eve, 1964, two American servicemen were killed in Saigon when Viet Cong terrorists bombed the U.S. billets; one week later, on New Year's Eve, Hester threw up—perhaps she upchucked with special verve, because Owen Meany was prompted to take the power of Hester's puking as a sign. (source)verve = vigor
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Teddy was just six months old at that point, but it was already clear that he had more personality, more verve, than I ever would. (source)verve = energy and enthusiasm
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Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. (source)verve = enthusiasm and zest for life
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The menus said "Café Verve, Walnut Creek, CA."† (source)
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The women danced with so much verve, so much music.† (source)
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"Definitely," she tells me, her voice buoyant again, the verve of fourteen.† (source)
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He turns and offers greetings as they enter, but Cedric launches right in-the whole diatribe, offered with added verve from his rehearsal with his mom.† (source)
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My return over the river was accomplished with such verve that I paddled the canoe almost her full length up on the beach on the other side.† (source)
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In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity.† (source)
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And though no direct word came, Raymond, after being on the defensive for so long, and after all the talking he had had to do about the madonna cult, began to be more argumentative with visitors and to hint, with something of his old verve, that the President had something up his sleeve that would give a new direction to the country.† (source)
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