Sentence examples for adjective to apply from inspiring English sources

That's not an adjective to apply to any of Ms. Brown's other pieces here.

No, withering is not a cheering adjective to apply to a newspaper.

Their line-out was efficient - what a disgusting adjective to apply to French rugby.

However, writing in 1641 about the difference between soul and body, he needed a neutral adjective to apply to the body that meant "pertaining to the senses" of touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing.

The most grating thing is the title; it sounds like something from a Hong Kong version of the Police Academy movies, and coarse is the last adjective to apply to this film.

Ribald, gentle, messy — any other adjective you would care to apply.

If there's one adjective you'd struggle to apply to Garner, it's "prolific".

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.

I will have to assess the odds of its continuing, and to apply adjectives and characteristics to each of my lumberjacks, in another dispatch.

Art critics since Freud's first shows in the 1940s have had difficulties situating his achievement; the common solution has been to apply adjectives to the painted subjects in a way that reflects little more than personal taste, the writers telling readers whether the person portrayed was bored or intimidated, scrawny or obese, the paint slathered, crumbly or miraculously plastic.

An action can be illegal, so it's one thing to talk about "illegal immigration", but I'm not sure what it means to apply that adjective to a person.