adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
demonstrative pronoun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dave's not very demonstrative , but I know he loves me.
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His parents were never very demonstrative towards him, so he finds it hard to show his own feelings.
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She's not a very demonstrative person, but her friends are important to her.
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We use the dolls for demonstrative purposes in sessions with young children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mathematical proof about some property of a triangle does not, Gassendi thinks, give demonstrative understanding of its cause.
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It was not a demonstrative friendship; they had never kissed, had never indeed touched hands except at that first meeting.
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Loulou charged up to each new arrival, thumping and hugging in a demonstrative greeting.
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Patrick had not been a demonstrative man.
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Peter, who made his fortune in the family wallpaper business, was a generous, demonstrative and easy-going stepfather.
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The demonstrative determiners combine with non-deictic terms for spatial organization to yield complex deictic descriptions of location.
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The verb is longer but unambiguous, a demonstrative moment as the tongue flicks anxiously away from the palate to release the vowel.