adjectives
Example Sentences
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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
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
“We try to come up with new adjectives every time,” said Nuna, who provides the singing voice for Mira.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
I was covering Little League baseball in Davis, an exercise in recycling adjectives to describe home runs that were clobbered, ripped, slugged, rocketed, smoked and launched.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 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
