How to Use adjective in a Sentence

adjective

1 of 2 noun

• The words blue in “the blue car,” deep in “the water is deep,” and tired in “I'm very tired” are adjectives.
• These adjectives threw up a big tent, and much of the world crowded in.
  — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
• Your ex is *insert adjective here* and def not worth your time.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 21 Aug. 2017
• There aren’t adjectives big enough to describe my love for you Dubes.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• There’s not enough adjectives or positive things to say about him.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
• Many more adjectives to describe him.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 19 June 2026
• Many adjectives to describe this comment come to mind.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
• Sure, the name isn't flashy with cliché adjectives and modifiers.
  — Carey Polis, Bon Appetit, 19 Aug. 2017
• The guy has a tendency to repeat the same adjective twice in one breath.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
• And one person even filled in the blank with an adjective instead of person.
  — Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• Those moments where, in the space of a single adjective, the lens just shifts slightly.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
• Long-term changes in the meaning of nouns, verbs and adjectives are also routine.
  — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
• Fat shortens the gluten strands, helping to keep your soft pretzels true to their adjective.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2021
• Cordero had, for a week, struggled to find the right adjectives to convey what had happened to them.
  — Claire Galofaro, Fox News, 2 May 2018
• In the case of this party, these are all positive adjectives.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 July 2019
• People go in and use just about every adjective on half of the lower level.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2017
• Sentences were crossed out and adjectives inserted with a pen.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
• That’s why there’s no way to sum up Kansas City’s food scene in just a few meek adjectives.
  — Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2025
• These adjectives get thrown around a lot, but Maria is a singular talent.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
• Out of a sense of pride, my siblings and I transformed mamahuhu from an adjective into an ethos.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• The adjective has been paired with everything from egotism to irony to fascism.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Those are just some of the adjectives thrown around when the subject turns to McDaniels.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2018
• Strategic decks with bold pillars and even bolder adjectives.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• The adjective that best captures the conditions of this bargain is messy.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2017
• Threw in a few more adjectives here and there to extend the pleasure of the experience.
  — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2018
• The person is a noun, and a portion of their experience should be an adjective.
  — Brianna Holt, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2019
• Details, such as how to define the adjectives and how to pay for what the nouns denote, were for another day.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 23 June 2019
• Presumptuous was, and still is, the right adjective for the court’s actions.
  — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
• As any Patriots fan can attest, there are times when the game lives up to that adjective in its title.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• And those adjectives are probably putting it mildly.
  — Max Bultman, New York Times, 9 June 2026

adjective

2 of 2 adjective

• Loose as an adjective means not tight or not fixed, among other things, and as a verb means to set free.
  — Kathy and Ross Petrass, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2025
• The ads for the restaurant used every adjective in the book to describe the food.
  — Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 27 Feb. 2026
• Today's word contains six letters and can be a noun, verb or adjective.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2022
• It’s used so often now, people simply say juan (as both adjective and verb).
  — Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
• But even as the concept of an icon is timeless, the meaning of the adjective iconic has shifted over time.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2021
• The ratings numbers will be … well, what’s an adjective worse than minuscule?
  — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 29 May 2025
• The adjective ‘Spursy’ has been in football’s lexicon for years.
  — Phil Hay, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• Others agreed with him, but often included the adjective brilliant as well.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
• Or, to use an even more appropriate adjective, complete.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
• Often the best strategy here is to think of action verbs, then modify them into adjective form.
  — Peter Jones, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2017
• Unlike the plodding pacing of the soaps my mom used to watch decades ago, sometimes the pace of change is -- as the adjective captures so well -- dizzying.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
• The adjective ‘brave’ should never be used in reference to a person attacking a dead person.
  — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
• The adjective 'brave' should never be used in reference to a person attacking a dead person.
  — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Mar. 2026
• Wright asked, peppering in a rather colorful adjective.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
• Like the Greek god from which the adjective derives, Walker is fleet of foot and wildly athletic.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Good is probably not a strong enough adjective to describe Tess's swimming ability now.
  — Matt Zahn, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• Cliché is a noun and its adjective form has traditionally been clichéd, though today cliché itself is often used as an adjective too.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2022
• The adjective is not just a buzzword, as the gourmand notes here are full-bodied and underscored by intentional traces of the spicy, the musky, and the woody.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Meanwhile, dad as an adjective hints at someone shorn of all responsibilities.
  — Saul Austerlitz, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• Although more — the adjective, not the Sir Thomas — is more here, the film suffers for its lack of style and narrative discipline.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 18 June 2024
• His biography is a sequence of events for which only the adjective Dostoyevskian will really do.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
• Perhaps a better adjective would have been otherworldly.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
• While the word toxin only refers to substances that are toxic in low doses, the adjective toxic can be used whenever something causes disease.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2017
• The word patient comes from the Latin patiens — an adjective meaning enduring, suffering.
  — Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli, STAT, 2 June 2026
• In short, the noun has traditionally borne little relation to the sibling adjective enormous.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 9 June 2022
• Interesting is the adjective Lenù had always strived to append to her own self — the traces of this same desire seem to already be emerging in Dede.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
• As with Uber gradually becoming a noun, verb and adjective to the masses, the bet is that with time the obscure qualities of crypto will be anything but.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Use a table format, in which one column includes the adjective, the second column offers a 2-sentence description of that tone, and the third column gives an example.
  — Grace Aldridge Foster, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Look to celebs like Nick Cannon and Jessica Hart for popularizing adjective names.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
• Some of these peoples are collectively known as Taíno, which does not necessarily describe a specific group but rather is an adjective, loosely defined as noble or good.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025