verbless
- a word derived from verb.
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Often the density of detail is such that the sentences become verbless lists.
From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2019
In his tweets, he is prone to run-on sentences, shouty capitalisations, unpresidented misspellings and malapropisms, quote marks used for emphasis and verbless exclamations.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2017
But what endured in public memory far longer than the crime was the headline, with its verbless audacity, arresting parallel adjectives and forceful trochaic slams.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2015
Stylistically, McCann leans very heavily on one particular syntactical formation, the sentence capped by two or more lilting verbless fragments, which comes to seem like a mechanical affectation.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013
Such a block of Greek would bring even a German sentence down with a crash to a verbless conclusion.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
