"describe" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its pages featured Goldman, Djuna Barnes, William Carlos Williams and the journalist John Reed, described breathlessly by Wetzsteon as "a poet of adventure, aflame with dreams."
- The jacket copy on this cassette breathlessly describes it as a "taut, suspenseful sensual delight" - presumably for the discerning viewer who finds rape, sadism and death camps delightfully sensual.
- As an 8-year-old orangutan undergoes testing, Mr. Irwin breathlessly describes a fantastic procedure that will take "minutely detailed pictures from inside the skull."
- Of late, the mayor's heart and mind have been preoccupied with a development proposal that he almost breathlessly describes as "a once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity" for reinventing the village's shoreline.
- I haven't read the book but the way in which it is being promoted is extremely off-putting (newspaper reports of the book launches she's done in Indian cities breathlessly describe her "pretty" looks).
- When Nira breathlessly described her awesome vision to Yarrod, though, the green priests around him simply nodded.
- Recently, The Detroit News breathlessly described Mr. Fields, with his jet-black hair, as "movie star handsome," although his slightly rough-edged demeanor may be best suited to a Martin Scorsese film or an episode of "The Sopranos."
- A babble of confirmation solidified this view, with a couple of people breathlessly describing Bel's selfless defense of the visiting dignitary with the shield of its own body.
- He then breathlessly described how his units would surge southward from the pivotal front line and descend on the Afghan capital, a mere 35 miles away, after American jets had bombarded Taliban positions.
- In bold type, the blog breathlessly described a music store stop in Littleton, N.H., "where John Kerry treated press and customers to a couple of songs on the guitar!"
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