60 Sentences with Irregular Verbs in English

In this post, you will find examples of sentences with irregular verbs with different tenses in English

An Irregular verb is a verb in which the past tense is not formed by adding the usual -ed ending.

These are some examples of sentences using irregular verbs:

#1	Somebody stole my wallet
#2	I paid for everything you ate
#3	She made a very delicious cake
#4	I broke a window
#5	I fed all the dogs
#6	She sent an important email

Now let’s check all things you need to know to make sentences with irregular verbs in English correctly

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Irregular Verbs: Past and Past Participle

The past and participle form of the verbs is the most visible when using tenses in English such as:

• Simple past: I made a cake
• Present Perfect: I have made a cake
• Past Perfect: I have made something delicious

In the case of the simple past, the past form is only used with affirmative sentences:

• I made a cake
• I didn’t make a cake
• Did you make the cake?

In the past and present perfect, the past participle is used with all types of sentences

• I have made a cake
• I haven’t made a cake
• Have you made a cake?

• I had prepared dinner for you
• I hadn’t prepared dinner for you
• Had I prepared dinner for you?

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List of Irregular Verbs in English: A to E

These are some examples of irregular verbs in English

be	was, were	been
beat	beat	beaten, beat
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
bet	bet, betted	bet, betted
bite	bit	bitten
bleed	bled	bled
bless	blessed, blest	blessed, blest
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
cleave	cleft, cleaved, clove	cleft, cleaved, cloven
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
deal	dealt	dealt
dig	dug	dug
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten

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List of Irregular Verbs in English: F to M

These are some examples of irregular verbs in English

find	found	found
flee	fled	fled
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
get	got	got, gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grind	ground	ground
grow	grew	grown
hang	hung	hung
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden, hid
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt
keep	kept	kept
leave	left	left
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met

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List of Irregular Verbs in English: P to Z

These are some examples of irregular verbs in English

pay	paid	paid
prove	proved	proven, proved
put	put	put
read	read	read
run	ran	run
saw	sawed	sawn, sawed
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
sit	sat	sat
slay	slew	slain
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
spill	spilt, spilled	spilt, spilled
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
swim	swam	swum
swing	swung	swung
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wake	woke, waked	woken, waked
wear	wore	worn
write	wrote	written

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Sentences with Irregular Verbs: Simple Past

These are example of sentences with irregular verbs

• I went to the supermarket
• I sent an email to my boss
• I bought a new house
• I ran four miles yesterday

• She took a shower
• She had a baby
• She made a cake
• She rode her bike to work

• He was my friends
• He began reading a book
• He caught a cold
• He gave me a call last week

• They drank a beer
• They ate a Pizza
• They feed the dogs
• They forgot their passwords

• We flew to London
• We gave them permission
• We knew the answer
• We found this book on the table

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Sentences with Irregular Verbs: Present Perfect

These are some sentences with irregular verbs using the Present Perfect

• I have read many book
• I have taken a few classes
• I have done my homework

• She has paid for the food
• She has won the game
• She has seen ghosts

• He has spent a lot of money on video games
• He has bought more alt coins
• He has done his homework

• We have written a book
• We have spent many nights together
• We have stolen cars near the stadium

• They have heard about it
• They have lost their cards
• They have met before

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Sentences with Irregular Verbs: Past Perfect

These are some sentences with irregular verbs using the Past Perfect

• I had already told that story
• I had made a few promises

• She had made a few promise
• She had bought herself a car

• He had seen a ghost
• He had stolen a bike
• He had failed the test

• They had written several books in the past
• They had read that book already

• We had found a body near the river
• We had taught classes before

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