describe
Example Sentences
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The documents describe an elaborate hoax in which the defendants allegedly created fake companies and fraudulent email accounts and driver’s licenses to help fool lenders into loaning them huge sums of money.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Social psychologists describe this phenomenon as “post hoc” or “motivated reasoning.”
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026
He uses “value capture,” for example, to describe situations where we allow a scoring system to displace our true purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
They said: "He can't do it like other children his age, of course, but we can no longer describe what he does in any other way than by saying it's running, jumping, and swimming."
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
It seemed too, I don’t know, fluffy to describe a time-traveling criminal the same way you describe a really pretty bug.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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