"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 • ...
describe + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 148
once describe • originally described • accurately describe • formally described • variously described • later describe • ...
  • An Army report once described him as having no regard for human life.
  • Miss Brown once described herself as a "professional street person."
  • Just like that, a team once described as veteran simply looks old.
  • He once described her as "the most remarkable woman I have ever met in my life".
  • He once described himself as "just the mechanic who put things together."
  • He was also once described as 'a man with an instinct for success'.
  • He once described him to me as the greatest warrior of the age.
  • They once described their music as "punk for the working class".
  • She herself once described her art as "a journey to the most secret heart of things."
20. best described = najlepiej opisać best described
23. widely described = powszechnie opisany widely described
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35

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