descriptive
Example Sentences
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Is space-time simply a descriptive framework for relating those events?
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
The information companies gather on users can range from internal purchase history, to internet search histories, precise geolocation and descriptive demographics like age, race and class.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
Simple, descriptive lines take on stimulating contours, as in the opening of the first chapter: “Incurably insomniac, Anton Vowl turns on a light.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
It merely stated that, as a descriptive matter, the court no longer applies it.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing descriptive
Expository Writing, List 1
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Achievement First 5th Grade IA 1 Words
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STAAR English II: Composition, Revision, and Editing
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