How To Use Describe In A Sentence

He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
I'd say name it except for your second point, that named Wealden brachiosaurids are plentiful and once better material is described, some would near certainly be synonymized. ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV
And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team

Even Peggy Noonan on MTP struggled this morning to describe as benignly as possible how McCain is noticeably putting a lot of energy into keeping a lid on his anger. Obama Unleashes Wave Of Mailers Attacking McCain's Health Plan
She described him as 'maddening, but lovely' and the untidiest and clumsiest person she had met. Times, Sunday Times
They describe some gaps in the literature and provide some suggestions for future research.
Meanwhile, Mr. Christie is taking the same tact in what he described as a "passionate" relationship with Mr. Sweeney, who has the power to single-handedly block bills. Christie, Sweeney in Standoff Over Funds
In other cultures he might be described as effeminate and, therefore, be an object of derision. The Kaisho
Most intriguingly, among the described symptoms of fugu poisoning is progressive limb paralysis while maintaining consciousness.
He still describes himself as a communist, and still calls for a revolution.
Even the en suite bathroom of the bedroom she shared with Emily could be described by no other word than glorious!
The orbit of the earth (or the circle which the sun seems to describe round the earth), is called the ecliptic, which is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and are distinguished by the following names and marks, [again, the symbols for the signs can be seen in the A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher. Canada.com Top Stories
An early season bloomer, about 18-inches tall, its subtle fragrance has been described as elegant, sweet, and tartly fruity.
Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.
For the last five years, he's been a fixture on Houston street corners begging for money, a life Edwards describes as dehumanizing and empty. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
Eight crowns with alternating large and small fleurons are described.
It is politically safer – yes, even pragmatic – to describe one’s values as "commonsensical" or "middle of the road. Archive 2009-05-01
They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
Part B (to be completed during the appraisal by the appraiser - where appropriate and safe to do so, certain items can completed by the appraiser before the appraisal, and then discussed and validated or amended in discussion with the appraisee during the appraisal.) name of appraiser: position: time managing appraisee: B1 Describe the purpose of the appraisee's job. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The political analyst Nikolai Petrov has described Mr. Putin's predicament using the chess term "zugzwang," in which a player sees only moves that will damage his position, and yet does not have the option of passing. NYT > Home Page
This, the coming-of-Buddha symptom, Dr. Anderson describes as prolapsus. Hemingway on Hunting
The best way to describe the pain in my hands and feet is during the morning, it is like a bad toothache.
We can credibly describe the band's latest album as their best yet.
His demeanor was that of a person who is far from pleased with the course of events, and the word glum best describes his expression. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.
Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
The culture that he describes is so different from mine that I sometimes find it hard to relate to.
In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance. CSO
Members of the other parties were described as counter-revolutionary.
Figure 1: The figure represents diagrammatically the key factors, as described in the literature review, which influence the reading development of English and Greek bilingual and monolingual children. Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News
In the 10 years I've worked with him, I don't think I've even used the word ventriloquist when I describe him," Brown-Marmel told Pollstar Photo RSS Feed
Mark describes in greater detail the intermediate stage.
As a postscript your readers may have noticed that this individual has been allowed to have two letters published in the same edition, although she describes herself differently in each letter.
She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
The Japanese fisheries agency said activists on Thursday obstructed Japanese whaling in the Antarctic by throwing bottles of what it described as butyric acid onto whaling ships, as well as flashing laser lights and using water cannon. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
It took its corporeal form in the living room, disguised as a humanoid figure made of what could be described as a giant cotton ball.
But recently, he publicly crossed swords with Soi Lek, whom he described as untrustworthy and treacherous compared to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
The outcome of the analysis phase is a metaclass model that describes candidate services, their role stereotypes, and their operations.
Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent. Caryl Rivers: Bad, Mad Michelle
His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
We are working what you described as the targeting process to think our way through all of the possibilities, as well as to determine what the restricted lists might be associated to this so that we stay within the guidelines that our country operates within. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2003
The Tale of Genji has been described as the greatest achievement of Japanese literature.
Among techniques clearly described to us is his camerawork, which is presented during an early description of the symptoms of anxiety: nausea, shaking, loss of balance and distorted vision. Mike says ANTI-CHRIST is shocking, disgusting, frightening and will leave you feeling uncomfortable. But that’s kind of the point! | Obsessed With Film
I've been thinking recently about onomatopoeia: the sound words we use to describe actions.
Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia? Critical Mass
However even currently available estimates already show encouraging results in the case 2 scenario described above.
‘Pochles’ is used to describe a person who is physically inept and indecisive in his actions.
Popper described science as the greatest adventure in the world.
It took her two false starts - with analysts Bruni-Sarkozy described as "glum" - before she hit on the right one. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Have you ever worked for a leader you would describe as a micromanager? Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal
He's described as being ‘a wide man, ample girth’ and I thought it would be interesting to play a fat man.
In so doing, Congress is compounding the burden and is proposing to go far beyond any rational tax policy in what can only be described as a confiscatory manner. Alan Patricof: Unintended Consequences of the Enterprise Value Tax
Words cannot describe the beauty of the scene.
Parmesan is a generic term used to describe a family of hard Italian cheeses.
I was addressing the issue of whether his deathbed activities that I read about could meaningfully be described as signs of repentance for his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
On the same day that his government launched missiles at what it described as weapons facilities, Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Paul described how surgeons formed a new thumb on his right hand from the big toe on the foot that they had amputated hours earlier.
In his brilliant first volume on the Second World War, Winston Churchill describes French statesmanship on the eve of war as ‘the quintessence of defeatism.’
The goddess Anahita, first mentioned in an inscription of Artaxerxes II, and described only in the late Fifth Yasht, appears to have been originally Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
To minimize how this price is perceived, the self-defeating organization can avail itself of any of the techniques described here.
At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
Pgrolysis mechanism of small - size oil shale was described and its technological flowsheet was introduced.
He had described it as ‘a gathering place for computer otaku,’ so I had a negative image about the place before seeing it.
The document, which critics of the plan describe as convoluted and skillfully worded, does not specify any dates for construction or even mention demolition. NYT > Home Page
The movie would perhaps be better described as a suspenseful intrigue, but due to the inclusion of zombies, undead or not, it gets called "horror. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw. Storyteller
The colour of blue on the flag is ‘argent’ as described in heraldry.
In this paper, the researchers describe a technique in which nanowires of potassium niobate were synthesized in a special hot water solution and separated using ultrasound. Future for Nano-sized Light Source | Impact Lab
But, just in case you get the idea that all was pretence and subterfuge, I feel I should let you know just how the mother of a friend of mine described the communist years.
A Muslim group here in Washington, D.C., now revealing what it knows about the investigation, and what it describes as a disturbing farewell video left before they headed off. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009
Remember these rights are in addition to your rights if the goods or services are faulty or misdescribed.
My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses.
I found my page and there was a photo of myself and underneath it my talents were pithily described.
As described above, it allows antigenic variation in its antigens to evade the host immune system.
The pragmatic differentiation between classificatory, potential and actual affines is undertaken in accordance with the proscriptive principles described above, and is framed within a consubstantial conception of relatedness.
Dr Archer was memorably described as "fragrant" by Mr Justice Caulfield during her husband's 1987 libel trial against the Daily Star. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy.
Eberle described fish ladders as custom-built, aluminum or wood water chutes with baffles.
However I did notice something, and it was something that both my wife and father both brought up, there was a strange effect that wasn't there at the World Première, something I described as a fogging or blurring during some scenes, particularly the action ones, which made it hard to follow the action. Filmstalker: Avatar: An Xmas visit
We are so inured to the news, it's refreshing to have the conflict described by somebody who was there.
Clay, read how ishawooadescribed that round and think, high pressuer, could it have been an overcharge ... undercharge ... could the rifling been shot out at the chamber mouth .. all these can cause the indicators he listed, bullet set out alittle could not cause this "unless" there was an excessive gap at the chamber mouth. An Unequal Progress in Accuracy
Fitch cautioned that the country's sovereign ratings remained constrained by relatively low levels of external liquidity as well as what it described as formidable social and structural challenges. ANC Daily News Briefing
Joshi that students gave similar and what she described as accurate accounts of what occurred last month at Markham Elementary School in Oakland. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Only the spineless Liberal Left uses the term wingnut to describe the Right. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
A notice in Nature the following year described his representation of the attitudes of human locomotion by means of sculpture.
Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
We ended our snack (better described as lunch) with a large pot of Chinese tea, overhearing snatches of conversation from a neighbouring table.
He describes himself sitting in a room with five children, aged ten to twelve, showing them a Taiwanese water dipping bird toy -- the little chotchke that tips back and forth into a well of water as though it's drinking. Susan Stiffelman: Education, Seth Godin, Factory Workers and the Taiwanese Water Bird
“You’re right,” she said, regretting having lobbied so hard for what was described as the feel-good chick flick of the year. The Owl and Moon Cafe
This Navajo folk tale describes the creation of the Earth.
With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description. Found While Looking for Something Else
You should try to form an impression of the person the adjectives describe.
He described the American Navy as a club for golfers and bridge players.
As described in Section 1.6, the constructive empiricist argues that one can make sense of the observable/unobservable distinction, even if observation is theory-laden. Beyond the Voice
Allen also captured something in Keaton which can't be described except in cliches: kookiness, wackiness, ditsiness. The Guardian World News
The accountant was described as being personally dull, boring and unimaginative.
Sufficient is however left to show that it belongs to an order of animals not yet described as either of anti or post-diluvian existence. Archive 2009-03-01
While it might be fair to assume that the average comic reader is something of a geek (however that term might be described), the same can't be said about the average cinemagoer. [GUEST POST] Gabriel McKee on Mark Millar's Kick-Ass...and Why it Stinks
The nature of men is described as often having a natural depravity that is hidden inside respectability.
Although fruits added to jellies in the way just described are chiefly for decorative effect, they do add very greatly to the pleasure of eating them; but jellied fruits, as distinguished from _fruits in jelly_, are a delicious mode of eating fruit, and where it is in abundance afford a pleasant variety. Choice Cookery
The sludge from the bottom of the swamp that the dredge hauls up dripping and oozing at least has substance: you can dry it out, look at it through a microscope, describe it, or flush it down the toilet.
Periodically, bark and litter samples from each site were collected, moist chambered in the manner described by Gilbert and Martin, and examined closely for plasmodia and fruiting bodies for a three week period.
The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
Detmar is the sort of chap who would once have been described as a milksop; when Issie met him in 1988 he was 25, but so close to his mother he used to shop for her sanitary towels. Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
The implementation of protocol conversion was described.
He is described as white, about six feet two inches tall aged in his mid to late 30s. with a large build, a shaved head, a ruddy complexion and a distinctive Liverpool accent.
One they describe as mechanistic, the other as organic.
These technologies, with a bewildering numbers of acronyms, are described in many reviews.
PHILADELPHIA mdash; When Davida Johnson walked into Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic to get an abortion in 2001, she saw what she described as dazed women... Horrific Abortion Clinic Accused Of Leaving Women Near Death
The three-layer system architecture of conflict detection based on fuzzy constraint network is put forward. A corresponding prototype is developed and its running process is described.
We might describe feminism as a political project to understand and, therefore, to change women's inequality, exploitation, or oppression.
She had been badly hurt in what police described as 'a savage attack'.
Still and all, when I say there is something "insidious" about the taste of Dutch Coca-Cola she hs to ask what insidious means -- she knows what it means, but she just has to check, because she doesn't understand why I would choose such a word -- I revised to "malevolent" -- to describe such a benign thing. Evolver Diary Entry
His longtime friends describe his populist style as no political gimmick.
This paper describes the tooth forms of an external toothing and chamfering gear shaping cutter and chamfering gear shaper cutters designed by old routine.
But the word normal was never used to describe me. True You
Described as plump, fleshy, bitter, salty and succulent all at once, their taste remains on the palate long after swallowing.
It is very difficult to describe our joy in word.
There are many adjectives routinely used to describe jazz fusion, but ‘restrained’ isn't one of them.
Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
The description aptly described the new diplomacy of detente emerging from the 1972 super-power summit.
And, by the same argument, if the circumsolar planets were supposed to be let fall at equal distances from the sun, they would, in their descent towards the sun, describe equal spaces in equal times. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter. From the archives: Skating through life
As Tunisians flooded Lampedusa earlier this month, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, of the anti-immigrant Northern League, stoked fears that terrorists and al-Qaida supporters could have mingled among what he described as a "biblical exodus" of migrants. The Seattle Times
These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
Pietrus, born on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, received some treatments on his wrists from what he described as a voodoo priestess this offseason instead of having surgery on his left one. SplicedFeed
He describes the recent revelation that many small meat-eating dinosaurs were feathered. The Times Literary Supplement
Not sure I can visualise the little carts – but the multitude of vibrant flowers described with intense joy opened a triumphal way to the vision of that extraordinary gypsy lady whose beauty and style impressed you so much. Gens du voyage - French Word-A-Day
Adverbs Adverbs describe verbs in the same way that adjectives describe nouns.
You have to be able to describe things in a form that the end user can understand.
In general, I use it to describe the comparisons of independent outcomes in search of inductive consilience.
Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.” The Fruit Hunters
The term humanoid describes a general conformation to the traits of humanity, but implies an expansion of criteria to possibly include other species than homo sapiens sapiens. AMERICAN DIGEST
In this care study I have endeavoured to show some aspects of the unique role of the nurse described by Salvage.
Hyperimmune responses, either at the initial immunisation challenge or in the amplification of immune response, can be observed in cellular mechanisms such as basophil degranulation, or at a molecular level, with changes in the levels of messengers such as leukotrienes; reduction of the intensity of these mechanisms are described in terms of molecular pharmacology, such as selective or nonselective inhibition of lipoxygenases. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The detrimental effects of wind on vines are described under wind stress; installing windbreaks can provide a solution.
The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain.
The term corporate will be used here to describe the traditional conception, since that conception presents a right-holding group as a unitary entity. Group Rights
CROWLEY: Some on the Bush team were described as seething when they saw the Gore camp release those partial figures out in public. CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: U.S. Supreme Court Turns Tables on Gore - December 09, 2000
The general odor of the man she loves, one woman states, is highly, sometimes even overwhelmingly, attractive to her; but the specific odor of the male sexual organs which she describes as fishy has no attraction. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
We described in the paper a new type of polishing pill manufactured by using a rensentlysynthesized superhard ceramic powders of wurtzite-type boron nitride (WBN).
But leave to others these niceties, 'whether they are to be described as follies or absurdities: Gorgias
In a speech Tuesday, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir said the north will not withdraw from Abyei, which he described as "northern Sudanese land". Monitors: North Sudan's Occupation of Abyei Was Planned
This paper describes a case study of adaptation, constraint, and evolutionary innovation in pierid butterflies.
It's very hard to describe my feelings in the short time before the next delivery - an all-over tingle is about the best I can manage.
Despite the upheaval resulting from the arrival of Business Casual in the workplace and what has been described as the casualization of America, women rising through management ranks stick to their suits. “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear”
I would like to digress at this point, to describe another use for allopruinol which materialized about 10 years later, because it typifies the kind of chemotherapeutic selectivity which can be achieved with purine analogs as the result of differences in the specificties of parasitic and mammalian enzymes. Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
Marx may be described as a humanist, and in this century humanism has been given expression, in both secular and religious forms, in the philosophy of existentialism.
The result of the combined exertions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not only the obtaining of a very full account of the habits of this new creature, but a still more important service to science, the enabling the excellent American anatomist already mentioned, Professor Wyman, to describe, from ample materials, the distinctive osteological characters of the new form. Essays
Words could not describe the grief felt by the small but united community of Nurney.
Andy Anson, 2018's chief executive, is described as assiduous about keeping the board informed. Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
He would at least describe the wench who'd clocked him with a trunk.
Today is a historic occasion for our country. Historical usually describes something that is connected with the past or with the study of history, or something that really happened in the past:I have been doing some historical research.
Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. News24
This was Gerard's account of the Cucumber, while of the Cucumber Pompion, which was evidently our Vegetable Marrow, and of which he has described and figured the variety which we now call the Custard Marrow, he says, "it maketh a man apt and ready to fall into the disease called the colericke passion, and of some the felonie. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
Just kidding about that being hypothetical: That describes CBS 'snakebitten 1998 Games. NBC's Olympic ratings not necessarily golden
Yet, it is its foul odor, often described as the reek of rotten eggs or hydrogen sulfide, that puts the "skunk" into the creature's name. Valdosta Daily Times Homepage
The machine, which On Demand describes as an "ATM for books", prints, binds and trims paperback books with four-colour covers, on demand and at point of sale. Publishing
My sister went on to describe noises she'd been hearing, the regular old creaks and cracks that are heard in all houses and she'd also heard a clicking sound.
The shaken man described one of the attackers as thin, in his early 20s, with long thin face and a Mexican-style moustache and sallow complexion.
This power of control has not, however, inhibited the developments in the character of oral questions above described.
This article describes some of these applications in radiology and cardiology and discusses the potential of microbubbles for therapy.
In the cases described in this article, the patients sought medical attention owing to symptoms caused by atraumatic splenic rupture.
A life-long penciller of rippling muscles and bosomy babes, he casually refers to Hamlet, Irving Berlin and Ira Gershwin as he describes a life's work in what is often seen as a trashy business.
Since then, developments in education can only be described as extraordinary.
In the first half of his latest show, Lord of the Mince - which he describes a self-assured strutt called mincing of which he is the doyen - he reviews the ups and downs in his life. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
It does not therefore describe the collision of genuinely non-aligned gravitational waves.
Its most unusual feature, however, is its dentition: it was regarded by its describers as being heterodont. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Captain Thomas Randall, described as a freebooter of the seas, who commanded the "Fox," and sailed for years in and out of New Orleans, where he sold the proceeds of his voyages and captures. Fifth Avenue
In the book Steam Cars 1770-1970 Lord Montagu of Beauleiu and Antony Bird describe this tricar as follows.
‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’ The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is probably best described as the exercising of monetary policy, but not via low interest rates.
Food companies describe some of their efforts as adding "umami," a Japanese word that, roughly translated, means "good flavor. A Taste for Hotter, Mintier, Fruitier
One case, number 11, describes the management of a broken nose, and the treatment, involving rolls of lint within the nostrils and external bandaging, can hardly be bettered even by modern doctors.
Shorthand and typewriting have been described as the twin arts.
She described the colour and action which are strong features of these traditions.
Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above.
In an article last October, I described how my wife and I planned to chop around £800 a month from our expenses by cutting back on unnecessary luxuries, frills and trimmings.
This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them.
Chitting describes the process whereby seeds are placed between layers of damp kitchen towel and allowed to sprout prior to planting.
Copenhagen were described as the cleanest, while London, Paris and Rome were derided as the dirtiest. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
In another document this schoolhouse is described as "schola, anglice _schoolhouse_, ad borealem finem Aulæ prædictæ. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
It is easy to describe a circle if you have a pair of compasses.
The term "pigout" was coined to describe how boys eat. Three Real Little Piggies
Cope commented on this fragility, writing ‘in the extreme tenuity of all its parts, this vertebra exceeds this type of those already described, so that much care was requisite to secure its preservation’ (p. 563), and his drawing also suggests that the vertebra had been subjected to extensive weathering and hence was already fragile. Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II)
Described by some reviews as a bonkbuster, it's a light-hearted expose of the funeral industry set in Birmingham.
In 1935 Cornbleet was the first to describe a thickening of the subcutaneous fat layer of the scalp.
Slim means pleasantly thin. It is often used to describe women who have controlled their weight by diet or exercise:She has a beautifully slim figure.

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