Sentence examples for adjective has become from inspiring English sources

Often portrayed as the quintessential "cave-man," they are the only fossil hominin for whom a pejorative adjective has become part of the English language.

But Larry Ceisler, a Philadelphia Democratic consultant, had called Obama's remarks "boneheaded" the Friday I posted them and quickly the adjective had become a campaign staple.

For better or worse, the adjective "challenging" has become central to contemporary music criticism.

As further progress occurs, some possessive eponyms have rather changed into derived adjectives: "Addison's crisis" has become "Addisonian crisis" [ 3].

The term "mad men" has become an adjective, a shorthand way to describe things that are louche, elegant and dissipated in an antediluvian way.

An indication of this is the fact that she has become an adjective, the finest compliment that posterity can pay any writer.

So strong are the associations between the Ritz and stylish living that the hotel has become an adjective in its own right.

"Hip-hop," once a noun, has become an adjective, constantly invoked, if rarely defined; people talk about hip-hop fashion and hip-hop novels, hip-hop movies and hip-hop basketball.

She is the first female stockmarket billionaire to run her own multi-media empire, a woman so famous that her name has become an adjective, as in "very Martha" or "a Martha moment".The problem, argues Mr Byron, a New York business journalist, is that her domestic self and the image of domesticity she sells could scarcely be more different.

"Beckettian" has become a familiar adjective; EastEnders' scriptwriters have been known to base entire plots on Beckettian schemas; his influence on art and culture, both high and low, is inescapable.

If "indie" today has become a meaningless adjective, as King claims in his introduction, it's in large part because even its proselytisers have allowed its teeming ecologies to degenerate into monocultural sterility.