verbal

[ˈvɜːrbl]

Definition:
1. Communicated in the form of words.
2. Of or relating to or formed from words in general.
3. Of or relating to or formed from a verb.
4. Relating to or having facility in the use of words.
5. Expressed in spoken words.

Use 'verbal' in a sentence:

1. In half the cases, the experimenters patted the students lightly on the back of the shoulder for about one second while providing verbal instructions about the study.
2. Verbal statements being no guarantee, a written agreement is hereby made.
3. Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process.
4. Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written representations of an uncommon base-60 number system used in ancient Mesopotamia.
5. IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks.
6. Noise in classrooms can only exacerbate their difficulty in comprehending and processing verbal communication with other children and instructions from the teacher.
7. Wayne has great verbal dexterity.
8. Raft repeatedly hurled verbal abuse at his co-star.
9. Disputes were characterised by intense verbal aggression, tended to be repeated and not resolved, and made men, more than women, extremely angry.
10. They have a verbal agreement with him.
11. The campaign aims to curb1 school bullying2 in primary and middle schools, including physical and verbal bullying. Cyberspace3 bullying will also be targeted.
12. They cross verbal swords with each other.
13. Definition: ( verbal phrase) say things that make little sense.
14. Verbal abilities of one year olds are, in fact, related to their memories for events one year later.
15. The money has been recovered without resorting to verbal abuse or strong-arm tactics.
16. Usually they start by giving a survey to figure out what style a student favors, like visual or verbal learning.
17. He has an excellent verbal skill.
18. Those who played salient roles may become the objects of highly embellished verbal accounts or in rare cases, of celebratory articles in contemporary periodicals.
19. Autistic spectrum disorders often result in major difficulties in comprehending verbal information and speech processing.
20. However, even children with low verbal skills showed evidence of remembering the event; thus, memories may be facilitated by but are not dependent on those verbal skills.
21. According to this line of thought, the verbal abilities that blossom in the two year old allow events to be coded in a form radically different from the action-based codes of the infant.
22. They were subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
23. According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to trigger mental pictures helps people function quicker.
24. They received a verbal offer to buy the company lock, stock and barrel.
25. Many teachers have an intuitive sense that different students have different learning styles. Some are verbal and some are visual; some are linear, and some are holistic.
26. Like physical fights, verbal fights can leave both sides bloodied.
27. We have a verbal agreement with her.
28. Avoid complex verbal constructions.
29. These can be verbal cues or even body language.
30. A mere verbal statement is of no help.
31. If reading or listening does a trick, maybe you feel like you're a verbal learner.
32. The job applicant must have good verbal skills.
33. Daily communication is realized not only by means of verbal expressions, but by means of the individual or interactive influence of prosodic ( suprasegmental) features such as pitch, loudness, tempo, and rhythm as well.
34. Verbal violence adds to the distance between us.
35. The researchers can see if the self-identified verbal learners really learned better when the information was just spoken aloud.
36. Bullying is not restricted to physical attack, but also verbal abuse.
37. I delivered a verbal protest against their brutal acts.
38. I am making my way through Columbia University, surrounded by students who quickly supply the verbal answer while I am still processing the question.
39. A verbal statement is no guarantee; a written text must be given as evidence.
40. Verbal statements are no guarantee.
41. In the development of Western technology, it has been non-verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.
42. Definition: ( verbal phrase) speak quickly and at length.
43. According to the report, 63.7% of the incidents involved verbal harassment and 16.5% involved shunning accounted for 11% of the incidents while online harassment made up 8.3%.
44. The researchers speculate the findings may give left-handed people greater verbal skills.
45. The brain's level of physiological maturation may support these types of memories, but not ones requiring explicit verbal descriptions.
46. Computer rage is physical or verbal abuse towards a computer or computer-related accessory due to heightened anger or frustration1.
47. Our brains often don't notice subtle verbal patterns, but Pennebaker's computers can.
48. They had made a verbal agreement to sell.
49. The West must back up its verbal support with substantial economic aid.
50. He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.
51. He leveled a verbal assault against his Democratic opponents.
52. The host grabbed the bills and initiated a verbal assault upon the cabby, calling him a worthless parasite and a disgrace to their country for trying to overcharge visitors.
53. In the steam-engine analogy, verbal aggression may vent some of the aggressive steam.
54. They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
55. The test has scores for verbal skills, mathematical skills, and abstract reasoning skills.