gerunds
- plural of gerund.
Example Sentences
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“TiVoing,” meaning to record a show for later viewing, even became one of those generic gerunds, like “Xeroxing” or “Googling.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Muir and “WNT’s” reporters frequently eschew verbs, replacing them with gerunds in a kind of headline-style speed talk.
From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2015
And English verb forms, like past participles, gerunds and infinitives, can be difficult to master, since Chinese verbs are unchanging.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2012
Though in the Texas twang, he drops the g’s from his gerunds.
From Time • Sep. 8, 2011
I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
