Example sentences for: descriptions

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

  • This shows that training and experience contribute to consensual use of language but do not automatically generalize to the descriptions of unfamiliar wines.

  • Revised performance standards for all staff that incorporate GAO's core values and strategic goals, update descriptions of performance to better reflect the current nature of GAO's work, and include key management and performance concepts, such as leadership by example, client service, and measurable results.

  • Those who are not intimately familiar, from listening to them on radio and television, with how specific British politicians and entertainers of the decades since WWII sound may find themselves at sea in the rather detailed descriptions (chapters six and seven) of their pronunciations and their effects, good and bad, on the British public.

  • Mary Helen Ponce, in her book Hoyt Street, has some wonderful descriptions about the religious practices in her family, from First Communion celebrations to Holy Week rituals.

  • On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."


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