Sentence examples for describe a thing from inspiring English sources

It's very hard for me to describe a thing that I don't have – that kind of spirituality".

"It's not that we're trying to pull our punches," McPeak said, but there was, he observed, more than one way to describe a thing accurately.

Was it George Eliot who found something melancholy about the human gift for metaphor, since it meant we could only describe a thing by calling it something else?

When we use words to describe a thing, and particularly a thing that we don't like, some of our distaste for the thing rubs off on the describing word.

Yeah, exactly - the phrase can also describe a thing such as TV show.

We can treat any property as accidental or as essential by employing different sortals, or nominal essences, to describe a thing.

For if 'blind' describes a thing that cannot see though nature designed it to see, it will also describe things that cannot see though nature designed them to do so.

Though I eventually left behind what felt like kid stuff, kid stuff is another way of describing a thing that we know, that feels familiar and unthreatening.

As an adjective describing a thing, it can mean the opposite of soft.

Boring, b – o – r – i – n – g, describes a thing that is not very interesting.

Don't just ask where they have been successful, ask them to describe a time things didn't go well and what they learned.