How to Use adjective in a Sentence

adjective

noun

• The words blue in “the blue car,” deep in “the water is deep,” and tired in “I'm very tired” are adjectives.
• The first three adjectives scared the hell out of Augie.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2023
• The word ‘wrong’ can be an adjective, a noun and a verb.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• There may have been a few adjectives thrown in there, too.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• The adjective may be of greater importance than the nouns.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 June 2023
• Those are just some of the adjectives thrown around when the subject turns to McDaniels.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2018
• Tough is the right adjective to sum up Duke and UNC's seasons.
  — David Thompson, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
• The guy has a tendency to repeat the same adjective twice in one breath.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• For that reason, the whole clause works like an adjective.
  — June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 8 Aug. 2019
• Those moments where, in the space of a single adjective, the lens just shifts slightly.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
• There aren’t adjectives big enough to describe my love for you Dubes.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Those are the nice ones, the mild assertions, adjectives.
  — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2018
• Three adjectives that describe a good dip: warm, creamy and melty.
  — Matt Brooks, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• Your ex is *insert adjective here* and def not worth your time.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 21 Aug. 2017
• Cordero had, for a week, struggled to find the right adjectives to convey what had happened to them.
  — Claire Galofaro, Fox News, 2 May 2018
• How does this justify the dire adjectives it was swathed in?
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• And one person even filled in the blank with an adjective instead of person.
  — Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• In fact, they could be summed up with one adjective: gelatinous.
  — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
• Instead, she was left with a long list of nouns and adjectives: Risk-taker.
  — Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
• Threw in a few more adjectives here and there to extend the pleasure of the experience.
  — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2018
• Take the ‘strong’ out of it, find another adjective, dammit.
  — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 15 Aug. 2018
• Long-term changes in the meaning of nouns, verbs and adjectives are also routine.
  — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
• Visitors can look up how to translate a word, see the plural form of the word, change the tense of a verb or add an adjective to a noun.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• It’s that last adjective—conscious—that Yazhari says is key to being a leader in the future of work.
  — Manon Defelice, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Out of a sense of pride, my siblings and I transformed mamahuhu from an adjective into an ethos.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• As an icebreaker, Sue Skirvin asks the 15 or so people in the room to give an adjective that starts with the same letter as their name.
  — Austin Fuller, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
• Pick an adjective for the Red Sox’s loss on Friday night, one of the worst in franchise history.
  — Steve Hewitt, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2022
• Fat shortens the gluten strands, helping to keep your soft pretzels true to their adjective.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2021
• Sure, the name isn't flashy with cliché adjectives and modifiers.
  — Carey Polis, Bon Appetit, 19 Aug. 2017
• In the case of this party, these are all positive adjectives.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 July 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024