Example sentences for: intensifiers

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

  • A quite remarkable and innovative dictionary is now about to appear in revised, updated, and enlarged re-edition: this is I.I. Ubin's Dictionary of Russian and English lexical intensifiers (Russki Yazyk, orig. pub. 1987).

  • The second section consists of an alphabetically ordered inverted list of intensifiers, alongside each of which is a list of those intensificands which it can modify.

  • 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.

  • To each intensificand is appended a translation equivalence and an alphabetic list of permissible intensifiers.


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