adjectives
Example Sentences
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Bold, original and necessary are three adjectives that don’t come to mind regarding “Digger,” the expensive, much-anticipated satire-drama from Alejandro González Iñárritu and Tom Cruise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 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
"On a good day, I might be good. I think of my writing as contemporary accessible fiction and it really isn't for me to add the qualifying adjectives."
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
