Sentence examples for adjective was from inspiring English sources

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said he could think of many instances "where the adjective was very different from the root noun".

At the time of Mr. Hoyt's column, The Times's preferred adjective was in the process of migrating from "harsh" to "brutal".

Indeed, the adjective was unnecessary: there was no other sort of police (the first modern mention of the term private policing occurred in 1973).

I agreed with him, of course, but the adjective was offered without much enthusiasm and after that we let the subject drop.

Dr. Chubb of Edison acknowledged that reducing a school's performance to a single adjective was perhaps an oversimplification, but noted that many states, including California and Texas, had similar formulas for grading schools.

That adjective was chosen, according to Neil Howe, author of the 1991 book "Generations," because of "how quiescent they were during the McCarthy era... they were famously risk-averse".

The adjective is "renowned".

The adjective is always "blond".

Well, the latter adjective is certainly debatable.

The second adjective is surely apt.

The adjective is shy and embarrassed.