Sentence examples for adj from inspiring English sources
The word 'adj' is a valid abbreviation for "adjective" and can be used in written English
It is commonly used in grammar and language textbooks or in notes as a shorthand for the word "adjective". Example: "Please circle the adjectives in the following sentences: The big, brown dog ran quickly through the park. We can see that 'big' and 'brown' are both adjectives in this sentence."
noun
Alternative spelling of adj.
Charm, by Stephen Bayley, is out now as an ebook (HarperCollins, £2.99) or audio download read by the author (£9.99) Charming: (adj).
A buddy-cop thriller, it opens next week's Edinburgh Film Festival following strong early reviews Lexpionage: Indeblattergable, adj.
Another leading Romanian talent, Corneliu Porumboiu, returned with Politist, adj.
The book is cited as an early source for words like "chapelled" ("adj. placed or stationed in a chapel"), "revirginize" ("trans. to render virginal again") and forty-seven others.
(It defines "Democrat n" as "A Democratic Party member" and "Democratic adj" as "Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Democratic Party," but gives no definition for — indeed, makes no mention of — "Democrat Party n" or "Democrat adj").
Similarly, the prefixal negation in such adjectives as "unhappy" or "unfair" is understood as a contrary rather than contradictory (not-Adj) of its base.
TV-ADJ Show may contain crude, indecent, intense, suggestive, strong, coarse, graphic, explicit, or sexual adjectives.
Rummy may be a Kantian, but Mr Clinton's philosophical lineage rests squarely on this side of the Channel.Robert SamsLondonSIR – The Concise Oxford Dictionary states: "rum, adj., Brit Colloq. 1, odd, strange, queer.
"Critical," adj., "It means that his life was in danger and he could die from his injuries," the paramedic who attended to Joseph Guzman testified, when asked to define the word.
Leonard B. Stern, an Emmy-winning writer, producer and director for television whose frantic search for an adjective one day led him and a colleague to create Mad Libs, the game that asks players to fill in blanks with designated parts of speech to yield comically ________[adj.] stories, died on Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
