descriptor

Example Sentences

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That “consume” has become the go-to descriptor for how we interact with films points to a larger denigration of the medium itself.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

Writer-director-producer Ryan Coogler gave his film the cheekily apt descriptor “genre-fluid.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Thomas Jefferson, who owned a mule named “Dr. Slop,” mimicked Sterne’s style in friendly correspondence, and was among the many readers who liked to deploy the descriptor “Shandean.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

The diversity of FATWF’s peer-fans speak to the quintet’s wide-ranging appeal, and the title of their new 11-song album, “Trash Classic,” is a spot-on descriptor of the LP as a whole.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall