How to Use noun in a Sentence

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• Free isn’t a noun, as the stylebook points out, so doesn’t take a for.
  — WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• And if there are no nouns, then what is acting out the verbs?
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
• The word ‘wrong’ can be an adjective, a noun and a verb.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• The term can be used as a noun or verb, depending on the sentence.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
• To be a citizen, in that framing of things, is to embrace the verb as well as the noun.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 June 2018
• As a result, Life of the Party doesn’t live up to either of the nouns in its title.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• Don't ask for a noun for Christmas, ask for a stroll or something like that.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• The word can also be used as a noun to describe the spirit of cycling.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• The adjective may be of greater importance than the nouns.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 June 2023
• This is one of the rare big-brained small words that work equally well as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• An open society sees truth as process and method—more verb than noun.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• The collective noun for cuckoos, by the way, is an asylum.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• The transformer figures out that wants and cash are both verbs (both words can also be nouns).
  — Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023
• As a noun, pif is slang for nose, and au pif can mean randomly, roughly or off the top of your head.
  — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• The job of a relative pronoun is to head up a clause that modifies a noun.
  — June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 8 Aug. 2019
• The field of aviation is unique in that the women themselves have embraced their two-noun term—to a degree.
  — Rachel Lance, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
• Crew is a noun that means a group of people who row together: a rowing team.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• The problem is that the phrase itself is now being used as a modifier to a noun.
  — Jakub Lamik, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is an eight-letter noun.
  — WSJ, 7 July 2023
• Yet the logic of this prohibition taints any noun that refers to a person.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Sly and his multiracial band at their peak, reminding you that funk is both a noun and a verb.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2021
• Visitors can look up how to translate a word, see the plural form of the word, change the tense of a verb or add an adjective to a noun.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• Long-term changes in the meaning of nouns, verbs and adjectives are also routine.
  — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
• Instead, she was left with a long list of nouns and adjectives: Risk-taker.
  — Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
• One was the ratio of the number of verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs to the total number of words spoken.
  — Lawrence K. Altman, M.d., New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter plural noun.
  — wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• Nobody mouths the nouns or verbs that would center us to the tragedy that happened in the parallel universe, and now lives within each of us.
  — Nick Fuller Googins, Men's Health, 5 Apr. 2023
• Bien pensant can also serve as a noun for such a person.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2017
• Many of the events and organizations below live out a favorite maxim of the late congressman and judge Abner Mikva: democracy is not a noun but a verb.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• At the federal level, page 95 of the style manual of the Government Printing Office lists the demonym for each state, a demonym being a noun used to encompass the residents of a particular place.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024