Sample Sentences for
articulate
(editor-reviewed)

articulate as in:  articulate her ideas

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    He was too young to articulate exactly what was wrong with every picture; he just knew they weren't right.  (source)
    articulate = clearly express
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    I couldn't articulate how the name made me feel.  (source)
    articulate = clearly express with words
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    Phillips was an amiable man and was, judging by his letters, highly articulate, but he preferred not to speak.  (source)
    articulate = clear in expressing (himself)
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    She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. ... The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.  (source)
    articulate = clearly expressed a message (or messages)
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    The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun.  (source)
    articulated = clearly seen
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    King gave that code shape, articulation, and meaning.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    She could see in her mind's eye the geometry of each patient's pelvic curve and match that to the curvature of the baby's skull as she slid the forceps in, articulating the two handles and confidently extracting the baby.†  (source)
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    Conseil observed and classified his zoophytes, articulates, mollusks, and fish.†  (source)
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    I remembered to smile and speak articulately.†  (source)
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    While inside the vaulting of the ribs between his knees the darkly meated heart pumped of who's will and the blood pulsed and the bowels shifted in their massive blue convolutions of who's will and the stout thighbones and knee and cannon and the tendons like flaxen hawsers that drew and flexed and drew and flexed at their articulations and of who's will all sheathed and muffled in the flesh and the hooves that stove wells in the morning groundmist and the head turning side to side and the great slavering keyboard of his teeth and the hot globes of his eyes where the world burned.†  (source)
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    Mr. Samgrass's deft editorship had assembled and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing—poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious, chivalrous, other-worldly air and the letters from their contemporaries, written after their deaths, all in varying degrees of articulateness, told the same tale of men who were, in all the full flood of academic and athletic success, of popularity and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as set apart from their fellows, garlanded victims, devoted to the sacrifice.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It is not by accident, please note, that we have chosen to associate with minds like those of Messrs. Naphta and Settembrini, instead of surrounding ourselves with vague Peeperkorns—which leads us, in fact, to a comparison that in many respects and particularly in regard to stature can only be resolved in favor of this late arrival, just as it was resolved in Hans Castorp's own mind as he lay on his balcony and admitted that those two hyperarticulate mentors, tugging at both sides of his soul, simply shrank beside Pieter Peeperkorn, until he was inclined to call them the same name the Dutchman had called him in a fit of drunken royal banter—"little chatterboxes"—and decided it was a piece of†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperarticulate means extremely. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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    Some of the pigs themselves, however, were more articulate.  (source)
    articulate = clear in expressing (themselves)
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