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Example sentences for "describes the"

  • He describes the organs of speech and their positions in articulation, suggesting teaching the pupil the sounds in order of simplicity, though he held that he must learn to write first.

  • He describes the cities on the east and west coasts of India; but he does not seem either to have penetrated himself inland, or to have learnt any particulars regarding the interior from other persons.

  • In the lesser Java, the tree producing sago grows: he describes the process of making it.

  • Gobat, describes the Abyssinians as light-minded, having nothing constant but inconstancy itself.

  • Discovery of India, describes the Moors of Sofalah sewing their boats with "cayro" ch.

  • He describes the inhabitants as the finest race he had seen in the South Seas, almost as fair as Europeans, and their language very similar to that of Otaheite.

  • The name La Mesa (the table) down on the chart Cook had with him, describes the island, says Burney, but the longitude is several degrees out.

  • He describes the country as lightly timbered, with a sandy soil growing a plentiful crop of coarse grass, of which a quantity was cut for the sheep.

  • As if speaking to himself he describes the perplexity of the friends and states his intention.

  • He describes the case of an afflicted man brought to extremity by disease, whose soul draweth near to the grave and his life to the destroyers or death-angels.

  • He describes the trance in these terms:-- "She is obliged to hold someone's hand in order to go into a trance.

  • He describes the Red-footed Booby as nesting in trees and shrubs.

  • He describes the nest as being made of loose twigs and as placed on a fork of a limb in a tall tree.

  • He describes the eggs as being grayish-white with a pale greenish tinge, and measuring 61.

  • Coultas (field notes) describes the nest as a flimsy affair.

  • The word "subdued" describes the effect at which those artists have aimed.

  • David knew this; while he describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, he, at the same time, describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth Christ's righteousness.

  • Considered as an allegory of the spiritual life on earth, it describes the process of escape from eternal condemnation through grace into eternal happiness.

  • He describes the concourse of the Florentines, and gives the measure of his own astonishment by saying: "They work prodigies in this feast, and miracles, or at least the representation of miracles.

  • Francis, describes the flight of the Roman eagle and Cacciaguida's manhood, with equal energy of brief but ineffaceably impressive narration.

  • He describes the building of Fort Washington in July of 1776 by the men of Magaw's and Hand's regiments.

  • He describes the condition of these men as appalling.

  • He describes the condition of the prisoners on their way in a transport to this fearful prison ship.

  • We will next quote from the "Life of Ethan Allen," written by himself, as he describes the condition of the prisoners in the churches in New York, more graphically than any of his contemporaries.

  • He viewed the beauties of nature with poetical eyes, from thence he drew his landscapes; he had felt all the allurements of love, and from thence he describes the agitations of that passion.

  • He describes the women as being of medium size, having straight, well-shaped limbs.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "describes the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything happens; bituminous coal; certain value; common knowledge; describes himself; describes the; good father; great guns; higher level; higher vertebrates; killing them; pine cone; purty soon; rebel against; scarcely necessary; scientific education; slavery sentiment; summer resort; the valley; thee alone; this here; tout ensemble; your time