Sentence examples for describing a thing from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

Only government agents, i.e. sadistic psychopaths, would have the audacity to use the word "help" to describe a thing (you can't really call it a function as it lacks purpose) that is actually 100% a hindrance.

Unlike landscape or figurative art, color-field painting is not about describing a person, thing or place.

Mvula describes a common thing: "The freak-out in the shower.

If you're describing a noun (person, place, thing, or idea) or a pronoun (word that substitutes for a noun), you don't need the -ly.

In her blog, "8 Things I'm Too Old For," Michelle described a few things for which the ship has sailed.