Example sentences for: modifiers

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

  • I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.

  • There is a low response to biological modifiers and the treatment is generally only palliative [ 5 ] .

  • We found that E2F loss-of-function mutations were the strongest modifiers as they completely suppressed the phenotype.

  • Future studies will reveal whether some of the other described functions of CSN also involve post-translational modification of regulatory proteins by ubiquitin-like modifiers.

  • A long string of modifiers in advance of a noun is frustrating and confusing to listeners; they want to know--right off--what the speaker is talking about.


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