describe
Example Sentences
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“I think candidates tell recruiters things like ‘I really care about my team,’ and then they describe a situation and take solo credit,” she said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026
Standard particle-based models of dark matter typically describe two main possibilities for how annihilation occurs.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026
They’ve ruined the most amazing, the most beautiful place on earth,” and tweaked a popular Texas slight about someone being all hat and no cattle to describe Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Options traders use Greek letters to describe some features of options.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
That poem, aptly titled “The Bells,” uses so many different words to describe the sounds made by bells that Mr. Poe evidently ran out and had to invent a new one: “tintinnabulation.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing describe
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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