Sentence examples for adjective use from inspiring English sources

Use "blond" as an adjective; use "blonde" (rarely) only as a noun, referring to a woman or girl.

I can refer to "that man who is asleep" but it would sound odd to refer to him as "that asleep man"; we can talk about the "Eastern counties" but not the "counties that are Eastern". Indeed, our distribution of adjectives both before and after the noun reveals another constraint on adjective use in English — a preference for no more than three before a noun.

That may have been the adjective used to describe his side's start.

Hangry, an adjective used to show feelings of anger or irritability as a result of hunger, is another new entry.

Yet, listening to those inside the industry, this is the adjective used to describe Bill Cunningham, who died this week.

The first adjective used of Odysseus in the epic — it comes in line 1, soon after andra — is polytropos.

The adjective used most often of him was "brooding", but one woman's brooder is another man's insensitive boor.

"The first adjective used by people to describe curves is 'soft'," says Oshin Vartanian, a neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, Canada.

In popular culture the word Zen became an adjective used to describe any spontaneous or free-form activity.

The dictionary defines it as either an interjection used to suggest indifference or boredom, or an adjective used when something is mediocre or a person is unimpressed.

And in a week when the favourite adjective used about Heaney in the media has been "earthy", it's something that needs to be said.