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
They ignored the numbers and filled their dispatches with adjectives indicating a doom that, hilariously, the study didn’t support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
This spiritual sequel to “Frankenstein” is a romantic tale of obsession, possession and fantasy — adjectives that also apply to its filmmaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who expends massive quantities of energy jolting it to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
To be sure, surveys of typical errors in student papers show that inexperienced writers really do mix up adjectives and adverbs.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
