demonstrative

"They’ve been striking trains for a long time already. It’s just that this time, they decided to target in a more demonstrative way a train that was going abroad," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Meloni received Rubio politely, with the customary Italian cheek kisses and brief hug, but without the demonstrative warmth she sometimes shows other dignitaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Lanier leaned on his down-home Texas folksiness throughout the trial, telling the jury what was on his heart and scribbling with grease pencil on his demonstrative aids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

The audience’s demonstrative empathy for Louis, though, is as much a credit to the writing as Goldstein’s performance.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024

And indeed Thessicher thawed after his first alarm was past, and with Karhidish volatility became demonstrative and nostalgic, recalling old days and old acquaintances with Estraven beside the fire half the night.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Statistical analysis revealed the same mapping between reachable and non-reachable objects and demonstratives across all languages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

They tested over 1,000 speakers to see how they use demonstratives in their language to describe where objects are across a range of different spatial configurations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

"This distinction may explain the early evolutionary origin of demonstratives as linguistic forms," he added.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

This, that, former, latter, both, neither, are termed demonstratives; because they point out precisely the subjects to which they relate.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

These demonstratives are very numerous—many of them being used as pronouns of the third person, and are declined for number, person, and case.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews