adjective

Example Sentences

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"Anything in Wales can be described with the adjective 'Welsh'. Therefore I have a Welsh accent, how mad is that?"

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

“So you can put any name or adjective that you want, it’s up to you.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

If you gift your daughter the house — leaving aside the debate over using “gift” as an adjective — your daughter would lose her step-up in basis.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

But you walk out underwhelmed, which is not an adjective that generally applies to anything Bruce Springsteen does.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

In short, the two sides of the coin, the either and or parts, must match grammatically— subject with subject, verb with verb, preposition with preposition, adjective with adjective, and so on.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner