Sentence examples for the adjective was from inspiring English sources

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said he could think of many instances "where the adjective was very different from the root noun".

Indeed, the adjective was unnecessary: there was no other sort of police (the first modern mention of the term private policing occurred in 1973).

I agreed with him, of course, but the adjective was offered without much enthusiasm and after that we let the subject drop.

(He insists the adjective was inserted unexpectedly by The Boy). "I wanted the audience to connect with him, and I love hearing his voice when I'm on stage," says John.

The adjective was used in an 1880 article in The New-York Times (we were hyphenated then): "One of the handbills" distributed by the Ku Klux Klan, noted a disapproving reporter, was "printed in bold-faced type on yellow paper".

Dante became known as the divino poeta, and in a splendid edition of his great poem published in Venice in 1555 the adjective was applied to the poem's title; thus, the simple Commedia became La divina commedia, or The Divine Comedy.

The adjective is "renowned".

The adjective is always "blond".

The adjective is shy and embarrassed.

The adjective is essential to a sentence.

Missing: the neutrality of the adjective is eloquent.