Sentence examples similar to used as adjective from inspiring English sources

The nouns chorale, choir, and chorus are frequently used as adjectives in such expressions as chorale prelude ("choral prelude" is incorrect), choir organ, or chorus part.

Note the hourlong email chain about what directors' last names are used as adjectives.

Truthfully, I don't really want to be someplace where the F-bombs are flying thick and fast and they are being used as adjectives, verbs and nouns.

When numbers are used as adjectives to describe how many of a noun, the gender of the number may change to match the noun it modifies.

The indicative, subjunctive, conditional, presumptive, and imperative moods are "personal", in the sense that they can inflect (to express time, person) and act as a predicative verb in a sentence, while the other four moods, called non-personal (infinitive, supine, participle, and gerund), are used as adjectives or adverbs.

And anyway, in 'trade name snappiness for octopi accuracy' it is being used as an adjective and when a noun is used as an adjective it very rarely takes the plural form.

Be careful with spelling out numbers above one hundred — if the number is used as an adjective, it is completely hyphenated, since all compound adjectives are hyphenated ( This is the one-hundredth episode. ).

"Sui generis," meaning unique, should be used as an adjective, not a noun as here.

(Also, "half-dozen" needs a hyphen when used as an adjective like this).

In the Netflix article headline, for example, the word "revamped" is used as an adjective.

(Yoga, a noun, is also used as an adjective by many American yogis, as in "That's so yoga").