adjectives
Example Sentences
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They ignored the numbers and filled their dispatches with adjectives indicating a doom that, hilariously, the study didn’t support.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 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
This spiritual sequel to “Frankenstein” is a romantic tale of obsession, possession and fantasy — adjectives that also apply to its filmmaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who expends massive quantities of energy jolting it to life.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
Just as our English teacher told us you can put too many adverbs and adjectives into a sentence—its called overwriting—you can put too many meanings into a statement.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
