"describe" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

describe verbo

describe + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 293
describe activities • describe species • describe things • describe people • describe one's experience • describe one's work • ...
verbo + describe
Kolokacji: 19
coin to describe • used to describe • try to describe • ask to describe • begin to describe • ...
describe + preposición
Kolokacji: 45
described by • described in • describe to • described under • describe on • ...
(1) by, in, to, under, on, ...
Kolokacji: 15
8. describe at = opisywać przy describe at
  • First, we got there and the place was like nothing that had been described over the phone.
  • He described his own track record over eight years as good but not great.
  • Major tax and spending programs are usually described in terms of their costs over 10 years, not nine.
  • Some have also described the controversy as a debate over the nature of God in modern society.
  • From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species.
  • "I think there will still be describing of the Democratic leadership, more generally, over the past 16 years."
  • Now her daughters were in the world with children of their own, lives they described to our mother over the telephone.
  • He has described his general approach over the years in different papers and conferences.
  • The young girl's family had described themselves as being "shocked and over the moon".
  • "They might be sisters," my mother said, describing the photograph to me over the phone.
describe + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 148
once describe • originally described • accurately describe • formally described • variously described • later describe • ...

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