Sentence examples for serving to describe from inspiring English sources

Desiree Akhavan is one of those people whose name comes with a number of prefixes – specifically, "Iranian", "bisexual" or "female" – which, rather than serving to describe her accurately, only really undermine her.

Desiree Akhavan is one of those people whose name comes with a number of prefixes specifically, "Iranian," "bisexual," or "female"—which, rather than serving to describe her accurately, only really undermine her.

It is shown that an initial increase in yield stress and concomitant decrease in hardening rate for a fine-grained material, relative to a coarse-grained counterpart, can be captured through initialization of a state variable serving to describe stress response at prescribed reference conditions of temperature and strain rate.

The phrase "tactical aesthetics" might also serve to describe a burgeoning ethos in the art world.

His theory successfully served to describe boranes and many other analogous structures.

If you omit "New York", that sentence might also serve to describe McCann's approach to fiction.

Ms. Banse, a lovely soprano, finished with eight Mendelssohn songs: graceful, satisfying music that the first four words of this review might serve to describe.

George Eliot's description of the Vatican Ariadne, in Middlemarch, might also serve to describe Procter's subject: "She lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness".

Reference frame, also called frame of reference, in dynamics, system of graduated lines symbolically attached to a body that serve to describe the position of points relative to the body.

Their fondness for turning salvaged objects into objets d'art makes the area feel like "a small town of misfit toys," in one resident's words, which might also serve to describe much of the creative class that now lives there.

He did so in terms that might serve to describe the theatre, when it works: "those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory".