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How to use the word expressive in a Sentence?

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Poets often push the boundaries of language, experimenting with words and forms. This experimentation can contribute to the evolution and enrichment of a language, expanding its expressive possibilities.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

Poetry can contribute to the evolution and enrichment of a language, expanding its expressive possibilities.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

She is dealing with significant expressive aphasia and significant memory issues.

Jessica Pegula

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A candidate's loan to his campaign is an expenditure that may be used for expressive acts.

The Supreme Court on Monday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My portraits have a neutral appearance to them. Depending on the theme, achieving the appropriate balance is always an obstacle. Proportions, like everything else, require meticulous measurement. That is, how masculine, emotional, and expressive they may come across and were meant to be - as if working in a science lab.

Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The contours — but the inquiry that the Court has set out as to expressive associations we think translate quite well to analyzing the claim that Petitioner has made here. And for this reason, we don’t think that the job duties of a particular religious employee in an organization are relevant to the inquiry….

Leondra Kruger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Is the issue we are talking about here in the view of the United States any different than any other group of people who get together for an expressive right?

Leondra Kruger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In many ways, it was more experimental and more expressive than even the Cadillacs of the day.

Bob Boniface

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

Ry Cooder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We are now able to produce expressive heavy red wines and through the climate change phenomenon we no longer have these cold periods which are essential to make ice wine.

Jens Zimmerle

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Both men and women gravitated towards this color. It ended up being super gender neutral but still very expressive, it's really hard to find colors like that.

Isabelle Olsson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We Cubans were born to dance as a people, thanks to the mix of races, the Spanish and the African, both lovers of dance, cuban dancers immediately stand out with their expressive way of performing the great classics or the moderns.

Alicia Alonso

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Whether it's sexual violence or being sexually expressive, I think the norms here sort of punish women for doing that.

Kartika Jahja

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We face different risks here when speaking out about anything sexual, whether it's sexual violence or being sexually expressive, I think the norms here sort of punish women for doing that.

Kartika Jahja

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Among the leading matters which would occupy the attention of the meeting, were several important documents lately received from Europe, expressive of the sentiments that a very considerable portion of the people of the British Empire entertained respecting the deplorable situation of the colored people in the United States.

Thomas Jennings

added by acronimous
5 years ago

Humans tend to be better at using more expressive language, more original language, they bring in their own personal experience as a way to illustrate the point. The machine doesn’t live in the real world or have a life that it’s able to tap into.

Dario Gil

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The important thing is that Dr. Thatcher wo n’t be able to interfere with our expressive activities again.

Bernadette Tasy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

And out of this improvisation comes a moment that can't be part of a dance, it becomes more of a personal moment, a moment about expressive gestures. And they're often, I call them, enigmatic or ambiguous moments.

Lois Greenfield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I shoot just one moment at a time. ... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception, it's often a moment when (the dancers are) falling, or they're going up, or two people are about to touch or something like that. Those moments are more expressive than the typical dance photo of someone in a perfect position on the ground or in the air.

Lois Greenfield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Marmaduke is very expressive and very active, and he's always doing something funny or ridiculous or crazy, he's always jumping over the couch, chasing after a cat. In the car, he wants to take over and drive.

Brad Anderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So now we've got way more advanced, way more expressive move sets than we've ever had before, a character like Anakin Skywalker is using his Force powers to pull and does lots of cool air juggles and is really much more of an aggressive Jedi than, say, someone like Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is much more of a defensive Jedi.

John Vignocchi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He expanded the pedal part of the steel. The mechanical evolution of the instrument that led to a new style of playing that was much more expressive and unpredictable, he had this sly, wicked grin that was so great, and if you played something he liked he would look at you and give you that little grin that was the nicest seal of approval ever.

Dave Pomeroy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is nothing to show, yet, some say the show must go on. Flowers blossom at dawn in the dark, a sperm germinates without a spark and photographs too are developed in the dark. You simply be, create and be, doesn't matter whether or not the world can see. Let your work speak and actualize, MickeyMize. Share this for a creative and an expressive world.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

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