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How to use the word Describe in a Sentence?

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In the theological cosmos, human understanding have for thousands of years travel into the boundless expanse of divine contemplation. Theology, we can describe it as a metaphysical odyssey, navigates the depths of faith and reason, probing the ineffable mysteries that lie beyond the empirical grasp. Here, questions echo like cosmic whispers, and the soul becomes a celestial navigator, charting a course through the luminous constellations of belief. Theology is the transcendent voyage where the finite seeks the infinite, and in the celestial screenplay of revelation, humanity glimpses the cosmic choreography that orchestrates the divine order.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
5 months ago

Just two days ago the speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy went to Wall Street to describe the MAGA economic vision for American.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're peanut butter and jelly-quote by Curtis Lassiter to describe his incredibly close bond with daughter Renowned Global Activist Greshun De Bouse, and to describe how neither was good without the other. #curtislassiter #activistdebouse

Curtis Lassiter

added by srvm
1 year ago

With a term like ‘incel,’ and with any term of identity, the definition lies in how people use it to describe themselves and others, that explains why the origins of incel differ from its current usage, and why it’s so hard to arrive at one exact definition.

Brette Steele

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Brian and I shared a love of stories and some of the language in the letter was using similar phrases to describe the depth of a mother’s love.

Roberta Laudrie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would prefer to describe what I don’t feel now, I don’t feel a fear, but [I] feel confidence in my abilities, one year ago … I felt fear, I was stressed, psychologically it unsettled me. But currently there is no fear at all.

Olexander Atamas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[It’s] just a crazy feeling, something I can’t describe yet, something I’m still processing, something I’m still trying to work through. Why did that happen to me?

Buffalo Bills

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ronald Reagan really used it exclusively to describe the welfare queen that had numerous names, Social Security numbers, different husbands, different welfare checks, reporters all over the country ran out searching for this welfare queen, and really couldn’t find her.

Gwen Moore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s very hard to describe when you have a near-death experience and are present for the death of other people, being alone on a country road in the middle of nowhere with nobody else around or conscious was pretty terrifying… It led to so many other things in my life.

Jennifer Grey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If I could describe my sister with a color, she was a yellow, she was so full of sunshine.

Elizabeth Krasinski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re usually afraid to describe new species based on only a single one, because there’s a chance that there might be some sort of variation, once we had those two specimens, we were fairly sure they were a new species.

Omar Entiauspe-Neto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In response to Biden's energy policy: Senator John Kennedy then gave a folksy analogy to describe Biden’s energy policy: “Ainsley, I used to have a beagle named Roger. And Roger was a rascal. About every two weeks, Roger would run off. He’d always come back but about half the time he’d come back dragging roadkill that he would hide under my back porch. President Biden’s energy policy looks like and smells like something Roger used to keep under my back porch.”

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy

added by krimpelbein
1 year ago

Chicago needs a leader who understands our city, its people, its history and its character. It needs someone who is a consensus builder, someone who is willing to work with everyone from across the city, who doesn’t get into feuds and has a thick skin. None of those things describe our current mayor.

Roderick Sawyer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To be attacked and killed in the course of helping others is both heartbreaking and enraging for our department in ways I can not describe. Lieutenant Russo exemplified FDNY-EMS, she served this city for 25 years. She was a World Trade Center first responder. She was cited multiple times for her bravery and her life-saving work. And she was absolutely beloved on this job.

Laura Kavanagh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a great pyramid or something like that, but for Dimorphos, this really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption.

Nancy Chabot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a great pyramid or something like that, but for Dimorphos, this really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption. This isn't going to blow up the asteroid ; it isn't going to put it into lots of pieces.

Nancy Chabot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These fringe groups capitalize on that lack of knowledge from everyday citizens, and they use rhetoric, like pornography and erotica to describe books, especially books around LGBTQ + themes and sexual health books that written by experts like the American Psychological Association, they are not interested in the truth.

Amanda Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a pain that is just so hard to deal with because you can't even understand it because it's like a pain you've never felt before, you can't even make sense of it. You can't even describe it, that's how bad it hurts. With Dakota Halverson, the reality this month started setting in for Dakota Halverson.

Shana Chappell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I played in college, we not only lacked the relevant resources but the awareness and also the language to describe the mental health struggles or even the racism that we endured at the time, it was like you knew you were going through some things, but you didn't know it was maybe depression or anxiety.

Kristi Oshiro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Infinite hearts in infinite colours describe the love I have for you as they flow through your thoughts.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Today, I took responsibility for a series of mistakes I made several years ago, i have said throughout that I respect the legal process, and thus I intend to address the court directly at sentencing. I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family — especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world.

Joe Giudice

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ridgway knew the life of the street, he knew how to move in and out and was sort of an invisible figure. People didn’t see him as a threat. I like to describe him as a little rat who kept moving along inside our community. Nobody seemed to spot him or see any danger connected to him at all… When we asked him why he did this, his only answer was because he could.

Dave Reichert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I can just remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene. It was something like I had seen out of the movies, i couldn't believe my eyes : There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing up. I saw friends with blood all over their faces. I was slipping in people's blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos. I can't even describe what I saw. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle.

Officer Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For me personally, it's very difficult to describe the feelings that I have, it's something that I for sure never believed I'd be here at 36, being competitive again, playing in the most important court of my career one more final -- it means a lot to me.

Rafael Nadal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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