declarative

Example Sentences

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The audience seem to know every word - with the whole room reverberating to the declarative, "I don't need a boyfriend", that crops up in the second verse of Nice To Each Other.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

“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 • Feb. 5, 2026

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 • Nov. 10, 2025

Even if she just stood out there with a sign and registered her displeasure just once, she needed to be loud, to say a declarative no to what was happening around her.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025

The instinct passed through me in the form of a word, a bold lyric, strong, declarative.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover