Example Sentences

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Though travel often features in his non-fiction and the three novels Raban has so far written, he most often uses the verb intransitively, with no obvious destination in mind.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016

That the main verb, "reminds," is used intransitively compounds the feeling of dislocation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010

Did they eat and drink, "take food and swallow liquors," intransitively; that is, without eating or drinking any thing?

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens

The very was formerly used intransitively in this sense.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

Milton uses the verb intransitively in Reason of Church Government, ii.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir