declarative
Example Sentences
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Broadly painted still lifes from the 1930s, with apples and pears transformed into flat, declarative shapes, have the physical presence of “The Lace Shawl,” with a very different mood and affect.
He spoke in declarative statements, I spoke in questions.
From Literature
In Yautja, the structure of a declarative sentence — one that makes a statement, provides a fact or offers an explanation — is the reverse of those in English.
From Los Angeles Times
But, he added declaratively, “I don’t see that as a problem.”
From Los Angeles Times
After a tour of her laboratory and MRI scanner, dialogue about the frontal cortex and the mysteries of synapses, she offered a simple declarative sentence: “We are our brains.”
From Los Angeles Times
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