- present tense form of describe (3rd person singular).
describes
Example Sentences
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More recently, a bunch of “unruly teenagers,” as Syd describes them, have been doing doughnuts in the street near her parents’ house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Moreover, one expert I spoke with, Sarah Taber, a small farmer and crop scientist, describes FoodNet as a “long term library of disease data,” not a reactive tool that’s useful in real time.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Vice President JD Vance’s insightful 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” describes all manner of white social dysfunction in Appalachia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The study, published July 16 in Science, describes observations of helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet located about 48 light-years from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Variation describes its present: Why do they look like this now?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
