Sample Sentences for
verve
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    I finish with equal verve.  (source)
    verve = energetic style
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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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    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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    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)
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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 women danced with so much verve, so much music.†  (source)
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    The menus said "Café Verve, Walnut Creek, CA."†  (source)
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    Whatever verve there was left in her, whatever was of love and beauty and joy that had not been squeezed out by life, had been there in the marigolds she had so tenderly cared for.†  (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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