Sentence examples for general adjective from inspiring English sources

The term was initially used as a general adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters.

stayed away from general adjectives (i.e. organized)?

In this respect, the very general adjectives used to describe the severity of the impact of the disease on the patient may be doing a disservice to the patient.

In the scathing complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court, the attorney general used adjectives such as "illegal,'' "persistent" and "willful" to characterize the violations of the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

As adjectives don't normally change in the plural in English, unlike many other languages, the argument is that you just add an S to the noun part – attorneys – and leave the adjective, general, alone, just as you would if the phrase were "general attorneys".

The effect on meaning of combining the adjective "general" with "health" is therefore an additional emphasis on not being specific.

It's been my great luck to be in a rehearsal room with all of the above, and the only thing I can say with certainty that they share is a general impatience with their adjectives, if only because those adjectives delay – or more often outright traduce – the main event.

She is perhaps the most widely known of the Muses, her name having entered general English as the adjective terpsichorean ("pertaining to dancing").

The PANASN consists of 20 adjective descriptors of general mood/affect broken down into two 10-item subscales of positive affect and negative affect, respectively.

She presents the resultingparallelism as proof of infringement, but the adjectives employedare so general as to be quite useless.

The phrase "je suis" (zhe swee) followed by an adjective can indicate your general interests.