declarative

Example Sentences

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“Call me Ishmael,” which opens Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” is among the most famous first lines in all of literature, but I prefer a different declarative Melville opening: “I am a rather elderly man.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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