How to Use verify in a Sentence

verify

verb
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  • He verified that the item was in stock.
  • Can you verify whether I am scheduled to work or not?
  • She verified her flight number.
  • And, of course, their claims have been verified by the court.
    — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • There was no way to verify any of it, but just in case, the team rolled out with three massive rigs.
    — Thallman, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Bose: And to really verify what’s killed the whale, Joy and a team have to dig inside the body of the whale itself.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Washington Post was able to verify the location but not the date of the video.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Officers went door-to-door at the complex to verify that the suspect was no longer on the scene.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The post was deleted before NBC News was able to verify it.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • There’s just no way to verify your commands on the fob itself.
    — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2022
  • These take days to count due to the need to verify voters' signatures.
    — Jeremy Duda, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Make sure to do your research and verify upon check-in.
    — Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Simply verify your status with ID.me and add it to cart.
    — Samantha Jones, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2023
  • The Times viewed copies of the vet records and a receipt for the transaction, but could not verify the buyer’s identity.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • As far as the number of cars and workers on the bridge at the time of the collapse, Homendy said that information needs to be verified.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Enquirer has emailed and called Trump's campaign to verify the claims but has not received a response yet.
    — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
  • These blocks are then verified by thousands of Bitcoin nodes across the network.
    — Andrey Sergeenkov, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Reuters was unable to verify the content of either video.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The app asked users to verify their school email addresses to create an account.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The Washington Post verified the location of the videos but could not confirm when they were filmed.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The World app can currently be used to verify a person's World ID to connect to some sites with crypto apps.
    — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Volunteers are needed to read, flag, and then verify if the deeds contain racial covenants.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
  • There is no need to leave your cherished items and valuables in the hands of movers who are not vetted or companies that have not been verified.
    — Chris Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Pahl’s ten-year-old son was able to verify one of the tools as a hammer used to reseal a cigar box lid, the collector remembers.
    — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The New York Times was unable to verify the provenance of the weapons and equipment in the images or assess the claim of the command center’s existence.
    — Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The impact should pare 10 minutes off that, but telescopes will need anywhere from a few days to nearly a month to verify the new orbit.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The Glaze Project vets every request to verify that each user is human and ensure bad actors don't abuse the tools, so the process can take a while.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 4 July 2024
  • If one person is hosting, make sure to call the day before to verify your dish is still approved and offer to pick up anything the host needs.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The law, which takes effect a year from now, holds social media companies responsible for verifying kids' ages.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The only way to verify this finding, researchers say, is to get more data—so archaeologists will need to discover more human remains from the Clovis culture.
    — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024

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