The phrase "attach the adjective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to add an adjective to a noun or a description in a sentence.
Example: "In your sentence, please attach the adjective 'beautiful' to the noun 'garden' to enhance the description."
Alternatives: "add the adjective" or "include the adjective".
Eighteen to thirty-four: for decades, conventional advertising wisdom has attached the adjective "coveted" to this slice of the viewing audience.
On Friday, Mr. Romney attached the adjective to problems, challenges, opportunities and change during a speech on the economy here in Iowa.
His first remark attached the adjective "grave" to the use of Aitken's teenage daughter Victoria in furtherance of the lies.
The Maurists excelled both as editors and as historians, and many of their texts remain the best available; they were pioneers in critical medieval history, and their work has attached the adjective "learned" to the Benedictines.
One recent analysis revealed that undergraduate students evaluating their professors attached the adjective "genius" to male physics professors far more frequently than to female and black physics professors.
Why else would would theatergoers be faced this season with three plays about Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968), the actress who comes attached to the adjective legendary?
Any number of complaining verbs have been attached to the adjective "British" as overseas commentators descending on the Olympics try to convey the spirit of the host nation before the Games.
FREE! New! Sale! Attach these adjectives to a picture of a sports car, a laptop computer or a piece of jewelry, throw in some fill-in text and bam, you've created a typical newspaper advertisement.
He knows that the noun "patriarchy" carries negative meanings, so he hastens to defend it by attaching to it the adjective "proper".
CASA is hardly a social-services program to which one could attach an adjective like "bloated".
