adjectives

Example Sentences

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Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

From Science Daily • Jun. 29, 2026

Yet a few paragraphs later she describes the country with three adjectives, “big, cruel, and transcendent,” none of which is unambiguously positive, and urges readers to “make of it what we can.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"On a good day, I might be good. I think of my writing as contemporary accessible fiction and it really isn't for me to add the qualifying adjectives."

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

The goal is to convince online shoppers to spend north of $100 on a scent suggested by a chatbot conversation filled with ethereal adjectives and descriptions of the English countryside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker