Sentence examples for may describe a from inspiring English sources
In robustness analysis Q(s) may describe a plant uncertainty.
Stewartism (if it comes to that) may describe a kind of splendid anti-idealism: the vigorous and manly pursuit of the not too much.
Yasmina Reza, the author of "Art," may describe a world filled with snarled ambiguities, but her plays are as orderly as an obsessive-compulsive's sock drawer, suggesting reassuringly that human depths can, after all, be calculated with a slide rule.
A re-engineering pattern may describe a process that starts with the detection of the symptoms and ends with the refactoring of the code to arrive at the new solution.
But as in many fraternity parties, things get out of hand, and one bit of repartee may describe a woman as "hot," which may lead to someone in the studio calling her a prostitute or a "fat cow," which may lead to a free-for-all, even chaotic, discussion among callers, shock jocks and other guests on the show.
She drew my attention to the occasional habit of the O.E.D.'s editors of writing definitions that lumped together startlingly disparate items, like the one for bing, which states that it may describe a heap of corn, potatoes, stones, earth or dead bodies.
… [Furthermore], since all physical activity has a unique spatial and temporal context, location history provides a linchpin for integrating multiple sources of data that may describe an individual.
It may describe an "elegant," functionally and esthetically satisfactory system which fulfills all its purposes without a waste of time and energy under many different circumstances.
One tribal name may refer to a group numbering no more than a few thousand; another may refer to the language spoken in a given area; yet another may describe an empire comprising peoples of distinct historical identities.
Depending on the application, that prediction may describe an outcome in the near term, such as tomorrow's weather, or an outcome many years in the future, such as whether a patient will develop cancer in 20 years.
So though we may describe an action in terms of its further effects, say lighting the fire, a necessary part of that action will have been a 'setting oneself to …'.
