How to Use describe in a Sentence

describe

verb

• Can you describe the lost dog to me?
• She used a stick to describe a circle on the ground.
• The witness wasn't able to describe the robber.
• He described the house in perfect detail.
• She described watching dolphins play beside the ship.
• Please describe what happened next.
• The article describes how the experiment was done.
• The two women described their suffering at the time and in the years since.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2023
• Green described how men came to New York from all over the country to ask for loans during the panic of 1907.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Seth described himself and Zac as two tall guys who wanted to fit in.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
• In a text message to Curt, DiCamillo sent a link to the story and described it as a birthday gift for him.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The 18-year-old was sidelined due to what the team described only as a shoulder injury.
  — The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
• Tasters online have described the flavor as a mix of berries with a hint of birthday cake.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• This year’s Trooping the Colour could be described as marking a new era for more reasons than one.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 17 June 2023
• Speer described a wine bar in a town near his, where a group of local musicians played.
  — Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• All are close; Sánchez describes Gonzalez and Tobie as two of her best friends.
  — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
• On social media, the adult children of Ms. Carr have described heavy hearts and profound pain.
  — Anna Betts, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Their method is described in a study published February 9 in the journal The Seismic Record.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Wake County school district did not respond to questions about the events described in the documents.
  — Kaiser Health News, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
• Some residents described using their bare hands to pull loved ones from the rubble.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• Several people close to him described him as livid about the trial.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• The label has described it as its largest menswear activation to date.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2024
• Over the course of the day, Soufi described some 20 calls with people on the trawler in a series of social media posts and a later audio recording.
  — Renata Brito, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• Two of us said the shake had a strong blueberry taste, while the other two testers created a whole new term to describe the flavor.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 16 June 2023
• To say Sarah is unnerved by all of this does not even come close to describing the perilous state of her sanity.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• Grede, who describes the goal as underwear that still looks good at the end of the day, points to Lululemon as a brand that crossed the gender divide.
  — Time, 20 June 2023
• At least 30 of the complaints described foam degradation, but the FDA said the reports did not indicate that any patients had been harmed.
  — Haajrah Gilani, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Polanski’s new film, The Palace, has been described as a black comedy set at a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2023
• One described moving to Scotia in the late sixties and getting a three-bedroom apartment for fifty-eight dollars a month.
  — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
• Hodgson called himself a friend of the future killer's and described the man's worsening mental health.
  — Madison Lambert, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024