adjectives
Example Sentences
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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
The goal is to convince online shoppers to spend north of $100 on a scent suggested by a chatbot conversation filled with ethereal adjectives and descriptions of the English countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
Not the “struggling” or “scuffling” or “slumping” a broadcaster typically offers, bland adjectives presented with the assurance that better times are ahead.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025
But not all adjectives like having ly tacked on to them, especially if they already eand in ly, like ugly, friendly, surly, and jolly.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
