Sentence examples for descriptive from inspiring English sources

While the study of the earth's features may be an ongoing descriptive process, he suggested, the map is both more and less than that.

So in this case, an asterisk makes perfect sense as a descriptive marking that serves simply as an explanation, and one that takes nothing away anything from Ichiro.

Less successful books also "rely on verbs that are explicitly descriptive of actions and emotions (eg 'wanted', 'took', 'promised', 'cried', 'cheered', etc)., while more successful books favour verbs … that serve the purpose of quotes and reports (eg 'say')," they write in their paper, Success with Style: Using Writing Style to Predict the Success of Novels, unveiled this week (PDF).

"Slim" and "the thinning disease" are blunt and descriptive.

To foil keyword filters, Mr Xia replaces sensitive words such as "freedom" and "elections" with uncommon or approximate synonyms, or descriptive phrases.

LAST week, Tyler Cowen quoted a famous paper in which the question was asked: Why is there so little money in politics:We summarize the data on campaign spending, and show through our descriptive statistics and our econometric analysis that individuals, not special interests, are the main source of campaign contributions.

The author is a genius of descriptive strokes, summoning "a pimply young waiter with a slick parabola of hair" or "a small brown almond of a man," in those few precise words.

A rift opens between him and the author.Mr Thomson's descriptive powers are deft: "The air is watery and grey, the colour of an empty milk bottle".

The writing still shows his famous descriptive luxuriance.

The dialogue is excellent, and the descriptive writing superb.

Applications are pending in America for, among other suffixes,.art,.shop,.safe,.wedding,.franchise,.food and.bank, lodged by both individuals and companies.An aggressive San Francisco law firm, Rodenbaugh Law,  has filed 15 internet-suffix applications with ICANN.* America's trademark office generally rejects such applications on the ground that they are purely descriptive.