How to Use adjective in a Sentence

adjective

1 of 2 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
• Annual is most frequently used as an adjective describing an event that happens once a year.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2024

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2 of 2 adjective

• As a Black trans girl growing up in Pittsburgh, she’s heard the adjective one too many times.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2022
• That’s not an adjective many would use to describe Charles.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Nov. 2022
• But even as the concept of an icon is timeless, the meaning of the adjective iconic has shifted over time.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2021
• Unlike the plodding pacing of the soaps my mom used to watch decades ago, sometimes the pace of change is -- as the adjective captures so well -- dizzying.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
• Like the Greek god from which the adjective derives, Walker is fleet of foot and wildly athletic.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Today's word contains six letters and can be a noun, verb or adjective.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2022
• Corporate sales count shenanigans aside, the new 2021 no-adjective Rogue is primed to be a hit, one of the bestselling compact SUVs in the country.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2020
• About ten years ago, it got revived, because other terms had lost their meaning: toffs, or Sloanes or the adjective posh.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 May 2021
• Under each blank, specify the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.) and let everyone fill in words of their choosing.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2023
• Plus, which marries the screen size and battery life of the iPhone Pro Max phones to the lesser processor, display quality, and camera system of the standard, no-adjective iPhone 14.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2022
• Others agreed with him, but often included the adjective brilliant as well.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
• Often the best strategy here is to think of action verbs, then modify them into adjective form.
  — Peter Jones, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2017
• His biography is a sequence of events for which only the adjective Dostoyevskian will really do.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
• Cliché is a noun and its adjective form has traditionally been clichéd, though today cliché itself is often used as an adjective too.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2022
• While the word toxin only refers to substances that are toxic in low doses, the adjective toxic can be used whenever something causes disease.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2017
• In short, the noun has traditionally borne little relation to the sibling adjective enormous.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 9 June 2022
• Instagram Holistic is the adjective form of holism, which the dictionary reminds us is a study or method of treatment that’s concerned with wholes and complete systems, more than the mere sum of elementary particles.
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
• Look to celebs like Nick Cannon and Jessica Hart for popularizing adjective names.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• That tension between adverb and adjective conveys a subtlety and disquiet reflected in the images.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• Schulz’s long, sinuous sentences pulse with possibility, flexing reality through their adjective stacks, their activation of inanimate objects, until the years freeze in place and begin to flow backward.
  — Robert Rubsam, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• Turns out that English possesses a fairly simple apparatus of grammar unencumbered by complex noun and adjective inflections and gender markers.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
• Another key adjective applies, at least until next Saturday: undefeated.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• Strombolian is an adjective describing volcanic eruptions with violent explosions ejecting incandescent dust.
  — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2021
• As a Black trans girl growing up in Pittsburgh, she’s heard the adjective one too many times.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2022
• That’s not an adjective many would use to describe Charles.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Nov. 2022
• But even as the concept of an icon is timeless, the meaning of the adjective iconic has shifted over time.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2021
• Unlike the plodding pacing of the soaps my mom used to watch decades ago, sometimes the pace of change is -- as the adjective captures so well -- dizzying.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
• Like the Greek god from which the adjective derives, Walker is fleet of foot and wildly athletic.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Today's word contains six letters and can be a noun, verb or adjective.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2022
• Corporate sales count shenanigans aside, the new 2021 no-adjective Rogue is primed to be a hit, one of the bestselling compact SUVs in the country.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024