How to Use verbatim in a Sentence

verbatim

1 of 2 adverb

• Some of their words are used verbatim in the film to lay bare the horrors of the dictatorship.
  — Daniel Politi, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
• Who among us didn’t watch this movie so much, it could be recited verbatim by our teen years?
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Dec. 2022
• The girls were accustomed to copying lessons verbatim from the blackboard.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• But most of the definitions — thousands of them — were drawn verbatim from Entick.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Whenever a topic on the card is mentioned, cross it off and keep going — and no, the topic does not have to be mentioned verbatim.
  — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
• So much of the action is spelled out verbatim here that The Kite Runner is more of a vivid recitation than fully realized drama.
  — Naveen Kumar, Vulture, 21 July 2022
• The voice uttered words that appeared verbatim on Trump's Truth Social platform, but there is nothing explicit in the ad that says that the voice is not Trump's.
  — Fin Gómez, CBS News, 18 July 2023
• It has not been made public, and the people familiar with it would not describe Trump’s statements verbatim.
  — Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• Most of them could have been printed verbatim as a newspaper column.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
• Presenters take the deck, send it ahead to the audience and then proceed to read the slides verbatim during the pitch, thus patronizing the audience.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• The coach exploded the next season when a Texas reporter quoted Williams’ Southern drawl verbatim in a story.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The case is drawn from astonishing real-life events and much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim from court transcripts.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
• Sadly, Kolgaan doesn’t make it into Beau Is Afraid, but the first half of the short, right up until the possum enters the narrative, appears in the feature almost verbatim.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2023
• Later that day, Graham and two other observers quoted the policy verbatim in a challenge to the city election.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• My daughter and her friend can recite the land acknowledgement verbatim.
  — Hazlitt, 17 Jan. 2024
• Note that titles, artists, and descriptions were taken verbatim from the MBTA website.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Don’t Look Up is satire (a brilliant one, in my estimation), but that part could have come verbatim out of the Defense Department’s supply chain report.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
• Key words are vital to get your résumé noticed but cramming in phrases lifted verbatim from the job description or make your résumé hard to read won’t get you far.
  — Kathryn Dill, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
• The executive was read a post that Molly had liked or saved from Instagram, and heard how it was copied almost verbatim in a note filled with words of self-loathing later found by her parents.
  — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Wallace goes on to point at the petition on the petition circulator’s clipboard and read it verbatim.
  — Suhauna Hussainstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• But most of this week’s 38 inking entries (31 on the print page) stuck to the original meaning, often quoting verbatim from some newsmaker or other.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• Ballard thought about his country, and at one point on Thursday, stopped and read verbatim from the Declaration of Independence.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 June 2020
• The company cited the same reasoning verbatim for layoffs in this week’s notice as in the previous layoff.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Hours later, Bloys’ wording was posted verbatim to the comment section.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
• At one point, Eno answered an inquiry about working with someone by repeating, almost verbatim, a story that appeared in the film.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
• Buster would record himself reading the script and reciting similar words in Clinton’s accent, so Owen could listen and repeat them verbatim.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2021
• Ellsberg would be blindsided when excerpts of the papers were published verbatim.
  — Will Lester, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• Many other parts of the show – including monologues about his childhood in Freehold, his father, Clarence Clemons, dodging the Vietnam draft, and driving cross-country in 1970 – were taken verbatim from the last run.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2021
• But the words are taken verbatim from a 1970 police charging record, documenting the reasons for Mr. Sirico’s arrest on extortion and weapons charges.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
• The group polled viewers in three of those districts as the ads rolled out and found that constituents were quoting the messages of the ads verbatim - indicating to officials that their message is resonating, according to the group's polling memo.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2019

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verbatim

2 of 2 adjective

• The memo released by the White House was not a verbatim transcript, but was instead based on the records of officials who listened to the call.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
• Or is there something about the verbatim text that was different?
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
• The video is a verbatim reenactment of the arrest except that Rome cast a white actress as Bland and a black actor as Encinia.
  — Ariel Parrella-Aureli, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
• And in a stroke of genius, Satter equips her and the rest of the cast with verbatim dialogue recorded during the search, inquiry, and arrest.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
• Like Cooper, Kempner takes Trump at his verbatim word — that is, takes his words — and applies a twist.
  — Robert Lloyd, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• Sullivan said that a lot of the current rhetoric is verbatim with the documents and publications of the past.
  — Jemma Stephenson, al, 16 June 2023
• Sanders issued a two-paragraph statement on the shooting and read it nearly verbatim on the Senate floor.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2017
• No need to scan through clunky, verbatim transcriptions to find a single detail.
  — Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Since the school shooting, Trump has essentially echoed the NRA talking points, at times, verbatim.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The book also lifted plot points and verbatim phrases from Tolkien’s trilogy, the lawsuit claimed.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Nevertheless, a 65-minute verbatim transcript has now become the basis for one of the thrillingest thrillers ever to hit Broadway.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• Many of the emails opposing the plan were virtually verbatim.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
• Each call is great in its own way, and below is each call, verbatim, starting with Scully and Garagiola.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• Thus, dialogue is not a verbatim one-to-one translation from English to sign language.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Cooper’s original dream of the Black Lodge is repeated, more or less verbatim, with a spectral woman who both is and isn’t Laura Palmer.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 22 May 2017
• Four minutes later, the initial tweet was deleted and replaced with a verbatim statement that mentioned Karl instead of Carl.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Throughout the documentary, viewers get to see and hear (at times directly from Chu) verbatim tweets sent his way from Jeopardy haters or plain ol’ trolls.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 20 May 2018
• In general, is that the level of closeness from your life to the show, or do things tend to get more fictionalized than that?That verbatim thing does not really happen that much.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2022
• The point is not to polish and make what was originally spoken read as if it were written, but rather to make the verbatim transcripts of what was actually said readable in the first place.
  — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• The scene’s dialogue is nearly verbatim to what Priscilla has written in her memoir.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
• On the Senate floor, Schiff solemnly read the two allegations verbatim, in all their legalese and detail, a rare appearance by a House member in the upper chamber.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2020
• By echoing that rhetoric nearly verbatim at the United Nations this week, experts say Trump’s speech could encourage the rogue nation to fire even more missiles.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• The Jazz take detailed, verbatim notes of exit interviews and save them, according to a person familiar with Utah's process.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2021
• A credit link beneath the story led to a similar-looking site called Conservative Post, from which the story’s text was pulled verbatim.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2016
• To begin with, there’s no way an entire half-hour conversation could be recorded verbatim in only five pages.
  — Daniel Ginsberg, Quartz, 27 Sep. 2019
• The article is overflowing with Miller quotes that Ciralsky says are all verbatim from audio recordings.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
• The Memphis native laid out strict parameters for the producers to follow, which were verbatim from the vibe Timberlake explained in the trailer.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2018
• Turkey even repeated verbatim much of the wording of a statement issued by the U.S. in announcing its decision.
  — Tugce Ozsoy, Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• The appeals court ruled that those scenes would be understood as dramatizations, and not as verbatim transcripts taken from real life.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
• Although this is not a verbatim drama, interviews are the source of the dramatic material.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024