vervein a sentence
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I finish with equal verve.
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verve = energetic style
- 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)
- 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)
- The menus said "Café Verve, Walnut Creek, CA."† (source)
- 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)
- The women danced with so much verve, so much music.† (source)
- Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness.† (source)
- My siblings and I would muffle our laughter as Mommy dug into hymns with verve and gusto: "Leaning...oh, leannning...safe and secure on the—" Up, up, and away she went, her shrill voice climbing higher and higher, reminding us of Curly of the Three Stooges.† (source)
- 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)
- I would not convict a dog of killing a sheep upon the testimony of two such witnesses," Adams wrote with characteristic verve, indicating that he did not believe Callender's accusations about Jefferson.† (source)
- "Definitely," she tells me, her voice buoyant again, the verve of fourteen.† (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)
- In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity.† (source)
- 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)
- Effie, shining in a wig of metallic gold, lacks her usual verve.† (source)
- He was the undisciplined, recalcitrant, nonconformist, politically incorrect free spirit I had always wanted to be, had I been brave enough, and I took vicarious joy in his unbridled verve.† (source)
- Aunt Bertha's customary verve and impudence had vanished, and with it her boisterous manner that was part of her even when she spoke quietly.† (source)
- "Settembrini," the Italian corrected him with particular verve, accompanied by a facetious bow.† (source)
- Homais had composed it with verve the very next morning.† (source)
- Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as the Yale Glee Club was expected in a week the Triangle received only divided homage.† (source)
- Ned identified the fish, Conseil classified them, and as for me, I was in ecstasy over the verve of their movements and the beauty of their forms.† (source)
- Everything tends to show that his convelescence will be brief; and who knows even if at our next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?† (source)
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