Thesaurus / demonstrative

demonstrative

How to use demonstrative in a sentence

Grown-up giraffes just aren’t huggy, cuddling, demonstrative animals.

Walking with arms encircling waists, or such demonstrative tokens of love, are marks of low breeding.

But perhaps you are a chemist, and proud, as most chemists are, of the accuracy attainable in that most demonstrative science.

A cold reserve on Frederick's part had succeeded the demonstrative affection that had formerly existed between mother and son.

Asused here in its demonstrative meaning, to introduce a parenthetical clause.

THE FATAL DOWRYPHILIP MASSINGER

She was preternaturally animated and demonstrative at the station—your sex's little guileful way ever since the world began.

JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKE

I observed, as my uncle spoke, that his voice was unnaturally moved and his manner unwontedly demonstrative.

He had no sooner turned his back than the general relief broke out irrepressibly; Ormsby being especially demonstrative.

The demonstrative adverb thus implies a relative adverb: comp.

Kea pointed out to us with demonstrative finger the various floors or ledges on the inner wall.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985