"description" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unthinkingly, she frowned, and the young man on her left, who had begun on what he hoped was an amusing description of the prince's table in the conservatory, halted in mid-sentence.
- Perhaps the most amusing description is to be found in Dead Men's Morris (1936), where she has "the maternal anxiety of a boa-constrictor which watches its young attempting to devour their first donkey"!
- Tonight, Mr. Roach intersperses the translating with a stream of talk: historical facts, analyses of history's sweep, stories of historical Tibetans, explanations of arcane religious customs, amusing descriptions and professiorial jokes.
- "Ah, that is one of the island delicacies, Guildmember," and Olav launched into an amusing description of the habits of the tropical behemoth and the dangers of capturing it.
- An amusing description of the system appeared in Model Aeroplanes and Airships circa 1910, with claims that the Char-Volant could travel at up to 42km/h or 26mph (in gale force winds!).
- Your amusing description of past and present American food phobias didn't go far enough.
- A segment demonstrating Rodgers's fondness for waltzes includes an amusing description of Jeanette MacDonald, the so-called iron butterfly, singing "Lover" while astride a horse.
- In the same year, Mme de Sévigné attended the Saint-Cyr performance of Racine's Esther, and some of her most amusing descriptions of court ceremonies and experiences date from this time.
- 11.15 Churchill has given an amusing description of this luncheon in The Gathering Storm (pp.
- She gives a most amusing description of her embarrassments when she had to enter the royal bedroom, laden with articles of clothing and furniture.
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