Example sentences for: adjectives

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

  • A chief criticism of this book, in particular, is that the adjectives are jumbled together in no discernible order or, as mentioned, with punctuation between (except for a serial comma).

  • Most investigators, feminist and nonfeminist alike, agree that women's vernacular differs from men's: Jespersen listed adjectives favored by women, noted women's use of “little” intensifiers.

  • Proper adjectives, we are told, generally derive from proper names and are also usually written with an initial capital letter.

  • Nouns and verbs are the mainstay of the metaphors treated, but adjectives are in very short supply.

  • The sixth and seventh selections, one expository, one narrative, merit the authors' praise: “good” and “graceful” are used in the comments; other adjectives are clear (structure), manageable (sentence length), appropriate (vocabulary), delicate (shifts of language level), and vivid .


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