Sentence examples similar to a demonstrative adjective from inspiring English sources

Chinese has no definite article (i.e., no word meaning 'the'), although the word meaning 'one' and the demonstrative adjective are sometimes used as articles in the language today.

They have no articles as such; demonstrative adjectives ('this' and 'that,' for example) or possessive pronouns ('its') are used for the definite articles, and the numeral 'one(s)' for the indefinite articles.

The general structure of a classifier phrase is demonstrative – number –  – adjective – noun.

Lovett is not a demonstrative person.

"I am a demonstrative person," he said.

But I'm a demonstrative person.

Nouns too may also function as predicate in certain contexts; an example is wan-níi wan-sǎḳ 'today (is) Friday.' A noun phrase consists of a noun, which may be followed by its modifiers (another noun, an adjective, or a verb phrase), which, in turn, are followed by a numeral with a classifier and, finally, by a demonstrative.

Mr. Tillis, a lifelong fan, is a demonstrative touchdown celebrator.

Pavlovsky said: "There is a demonstrative lack of explanation.

All of those murders had a demonstrative character.

"It was a demonstrative humiliation," Mr. Venediktov said.