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
Humbled, I move on, again resolved not to let our unhoused neighbors feel invisible, nor to forget that homelessness is, among other adjectives, abnormal.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
The other two are nouns as well as adjectives: epidemic refers to something widespread in a particular community or population, and pandemic to something that has spread to an entire country, continent, or beyond.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
