Example sentences for: adjectives

How can you use “adjectives” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the preface to the first volume of that great dictionary, Murray thanked Hall expansively for his voluntary and gratuitous service: Those who are familiar with the pages of his Modern English , his English Adjectives in -able [1877], and his numerous articles and papers on special points of English, know with what an amazing wealth of evidence the author illustrates the history of every word, idiom, or grammatical usage, upon which he touches.

  • Are users really so desperate for descriptive adjectives that will go with nouns as to be willing to wade through almost two hundred terms?

  • But although we can talk about proper nouns and proper adjectives, we do not have a proper term to classify such verbs.

  • "Inert," "hollow," "anesthetized," and other deadly adjectives fill the reviews for the screen adaptation of David Guterson's best-selling novel about the lingering effects of Japanese internment camps in the Pacific Northwest.

  • The media, too, have begun to use positive adjectives to describe Putin's conduct of the war: "aggressive," "tough-minded," "determined," "decisive," "uncompromising," "no-nonsense."


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