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How to use the word descriptive in a Sentence?

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No one knows what it’s like to get a descriptive, detailed way of how someone you love died, a lot of people don’t get a description of how someone died in hospital. But for us, it was in the news every day. It was very hard to read. But it was unavoidable. – Tracey Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s the thing the mainstream fears the most, it’s a beautiful speech and it’s descriptive of integration. It sounds really good. And then you understand – whew – the work that’s required. – Harry Harris/AP	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'. – Raj Dasgupta	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The cone graphics try to be everything to everyone, and the end result is a complicated graphic that might not necessarily meet its goals, although all of its components are described on the graphic itself, people don't always read legends or descriptive text. – Brian McNoldy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Today, the published literature is very descriptive on all the problems that happen. It’s just that doctors are divided and it’s not clear why there’s disagreement on something that’s so common. – Daniel Cameron	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Social media data could provide descriptive information about health histories and behaviors that are helpful for building out the ` digital health phenotype ’ for patients, in a perfect, creative and well worked through digitally enabled world, real-time mining of social media content could be revealing allergies, medications or health problems that are otherwise unknown which could alter treatment decisions in an emergency situation and be life-saving. – Elissa Weitzman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My staff has always said, 'Don't say this,' but I'm going to say it again because it's so descriptive because it's true, in the summertime, because [of] the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time. – Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

No one knows what it’s like to get a descriptive, detailed way of how someone you love died, a lot of people don’t get a description of how someone died in hospital. But for us, it was in the news every day. It was very hard to read. But it was unavoidable.

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s the thing the mainstream fears the most, it’s a beautiful speech and it’s descriptive of integration. It sounds really good. And then you understand – whew – the work that’s required.

– Harry Harris/AP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'.

– Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The cone graphics try to be everything to everyone, and the end result is a complicated graphic that might not necessarily meet its goals, although all of its components are described on the graphic itself, people don't always read legends or descriptive text.

– Brian McNoldy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today, the published literature is very descriptive on all the problems that happen. It’s just that doctors are divided and it’s not clear why there’s disagreement on something that’s so common.

– Daniel Cameron

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Social media data could provide descriptive information about health histories and behaviors that are helpful for building out the ` digital health phenotype ’ for patients, in a perfect, creative and well worked through digitally enabled world, real-time mining of social media content could be revealing allergies, medications or health problems that are otherwise unknown which could alter treatment decisions in an emergency situation and be life-saving.

– Elissa Weitzman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My staff has always said, 'Don't say this,' but I'm going to say it again because it's so descriptive because it's true, in the summertime, because [of] the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol.

– Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

– Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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