Example sentences for: descriptive

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

  • Some of these dictionaries contain notes describing contentious issues of usage (e.g., infer/imply, reason is because/that , etc.), but those are, essentially, reflective of the concerns of many users of the language, hence can be set forth as descriptive.

  • Some discharge summaries and death certificates may lack sufficient descriptive information needed to confirm the clinical diagnoses.

  • Strip the battle scene from a cue written for a battle scene, and you get not mere descriptive battle music but an abstract shard of symphony.

  • Such information is not prescriptive or proscriptive, it is descriptive of certain attitudes—right or wrong—about the language and has its proper place in a dictionary.

  • We used descriptive statistics on the quality assessment data to determine agreement/disagreement among a pair of reviewers, and to present the data.


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