Sentence examples for a single adjective or from inspiring English sources

A single adjective or phrase contained in the F.D.A.-approved label -- no more sedating than a sugar pill," for example -- can form the basis of claims made by company salesmen to doctors, the basis of words that throb in the bold type of advertisements, even the basis of lawsuits filed against competitors.

In her younger days, she could bring a poet to prominence or ruin with a single adjective.

She is capable of capturing an art masterpiece or a person with a single adjective.

The hyphen's biggest job is to connect two or more words to form a single adjective: "a fast-moving train," "a money-management seminar". That's different from nouns and verbs, whose hyphens are determined not by any formula, but only by whether your dictionary includes a hyphen in their official spellings.

"Not a single adjective, nothing," he said.

The only praise that I ever heard the parents give Wei Jia was a single adjective: laoshi.

For example, the phrase "characteristic of a single component among the synergistic amalgamation of things" is a single adjective: oicaštik'.

This is ridiculous – or, in an age when it is not considered grammatically acceptable to use a single adjective when four are available, "ridiculous", "ludicrous", "preposterous" and "absurd".

There it was, a single adjective with the power to make a group of female golf wizards feel like Aunt Clara on "Bewitched".

Somehow, negative vocabulary has been compacted in our family – and a few others I've been around – to a single adjective.

Some people may protest that it's ridiculous to make book-buying decisions purely on the basis of a single adjective.