Sentence examples for adjective might from inspiring English sources

"Robust" just doesn't cut it — that adjective might apply to a Sousa march, but not to such sulphurous anthems as "Manic Depression" and "Foxy Lady".

That adjective might sound like praise, but coming from someone whose idea of feminine allure still involves a hat and gloves, it most definitely was not.

And so I wrote that word on my body in order to peel it off, as a reminder to myself that I never need to ask permission to dance, no matter what adjective might describe me right now.

Tyneside resident April Firston is quoted as saying: "His big hair and fancy adjectives might win him votes in London.

This is sweet — but it is worth noting that these adjectives might as easily be applied to the eyes of a loyal dog.

A NUMBER of adjectives might be applied to America's policy towards Myanmar over the past two decades, in which it has shunned the vicious junta's leaders and imposed trade, investment and financial sanctions.

Macabre, hilarious and weirdly touching more or less sums up Ms. Dukakis's performance, although a host of other adjectives might also be applied to her multihued portrait of a woman who has married and buried four husbands but cannot face the truth when the reaper comes to escort her from life's banquet.

Those same adjectives might apply to, say, "Interstellar," yet look how bloated Jonathan and Christopher Nolan's script was.

Perhaps the adjective "archipelagic" might serve, catching as it does at imaginings that are chthonic, marine, elemental and felt.

That song title notwithstanding, "sensible" isn't the first adjective you might think to apply to a piece that keeps time to its own balmy beat.

The adjective "young" might best describe the Debussy performance: ardent, impatient, precipitous, technically agile and at some distance from the original.