Sentence examples for adjective like from inspiring English sources

(Also, "half-dozen" needs a hyphen when used as an adjective like this).

CASA is hardly a social-services program to which one could attach an adjective like "bloated".

How can you stuff an adjective like that into a movie title without a tremor of irony?

So many people find it offensive to refer to a person with an adjective like "illegal" that I now favor the use of "undocumented" or "unauthorized" as alternatives.

Never mind that Enduring Freedom presented its own troubling ambiguities: Is "enduring" supposed to be taken as an adjective, like long-lasting?

Why is it that we almost never see the noun "atheist" without some pejorative adjective like "dyspeptic," which Judith Shulevitz shoehorns into her review of "The Faith Instinct" (Dec. 27)?

Sell yourself – people buy from people they trust/like/believe, use any positive adjective you like.

Ask the man on the street to define opera and you're likely to get adjectives like grand, foreign, expensive.

Adjectives like "graceless" abounded.

Nouns creak under adjectives, like India's overladen lorries.

Adjectives like "full-throttle," "edgy," and "indefatigable" apply.