How to Use verbiage in a Sentence

verbiage

noun

• The editor removed some of the excess verbiage from the article.
• The team doctors do not give the verbiage to reporters; the team makes that call.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
• The trustees relooked at the policy late last month and voted to keep the verbiage the same.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• The burger brand has also placed a full-page ad in The New York Times with the same verbiage from the tweet.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 8 Mar. 2021
• My father, who was a fine slinger of verbiage, was a huge fan of the semicolon.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2023
• The broadcast would be too heavy; there would be too much verbiage.
  — Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2022
• The good news for fans: Surviving the ground, the verbiage that has been a constant scourge, is gone.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• The verbiage in Cook and Moore's skit is what sent Hodgman on this journey.
  — Emily Zemler, Esquire, 28 May 2015
• Their endless verbiage makes some long for silence — for the bliss of quiet and the end of the impolitic phrase.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• That’s eye-rolling verbiage to the 99% of us looking for a fast, comforting pick-me-up.
  — Sam Alden, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• More than one attendee looked a bit confused by the verbiage.
  — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• He’s worked tirelessly to learn the offense, to learn the verbiage, to learn his teammates, to improve on the field.
  — John Reid, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
• The tasting was blind, which spared us from the daunting label verbiage.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 3 May 2018
• There had been also been lot of past-tense verbiage being used in the final days of the season.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• So, what Walsh did was take the system, the verbiage, the semantics of it and adjust it to very quick passes.
  — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
• The team used a nine-point scale for grading college prospects, and the verbiage had to match the numerical grade.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• The fact is: non-Jews aren’t as keenly aware of antisemitic ideas, tropes, verbiage, etc.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• The verbiage in the post is very similar to the text in that article and, at times, identical.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
• Trillin would never reach for such off-the-shelf and impolite verbiage.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• That’s not gonna be an issue at the next level, regardless of the system or amount of verbiage.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The differences, though, come in the details — the nuances of how certain things are taught or the verbiage within the offense.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2021
• The ability to handle an NFL huddle and the verbiage of our offense.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Toward the end of the interview, Oprah asked Harry to elaborate on the verbiage used.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2021
• The verbiage about an eight-week time frame apparently was removed in the early hours of March 17.
  — al, 24 Mar. 2020
• Stick to a classic, clean, easy-to-read font in black, and use professional greetings and verbiage.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2019
• That change to the traditional verbiage has evolved over the course of many decades, building on a service that has changed in many other ways too.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 19 May 2018
• For example, a machine can help craft verbiage in your email to garner more clicks to your website.
  — Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
• But at least that verbiage conveyed some sense of urgency.
  — Time, 20 Oct. 2022
• The ensuing three messages, each of which used similar verbiage to the May 5 message, came from the same number.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 16 May 2018
• For places formally designated as refugee camps, avoid the clunky refugee camp verbiage in a dateline.
  — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024