CHARACTERISTIC in a Sentence
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133 example sentences for CHARACTERISTIC, such as:
1. Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
2. Sympathy is the feeling characteristic of mankind.
3. These two species share a common set of characteristics.
4. Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.
5. Windmills are a characteristic feature of the Mallorcan landscape.
2. Sympathy is the feeling characteristic of mankind.
3. These two species share a common set of characteristics.
4. Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.
5. Windmills are a characteristic feature of the Mallorcan landscape.
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Meanings and Examples of CHARACTERISTIC
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characteristic
n. any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
n. a prominent attribute or aspect of something
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1 It was characteristic of the regard in which Scarlett was held that few people based their defense or their criticism of her on her personal integrity.
2 At the thought her spirits began to rise: it was characteristic of her that one trifling piece of good fortune should give wings to all her hopes.
3 But this characteristic command seemed to reestablish their former relations; and Lily smiled at the thought that her friend had probably summoned her in order to hear about the Brys' entertainment.
4 She meditated upon his gutter patois, the Boeotian dialect characteristic of Gopher Prairie.
5 But this occasional timidity is characteristic of almost all herding creatures.
6 Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the sexes.
7 A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery.
8 Mrs. Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature.
9 Mademoiselle Reisz answered Monsieur Ratignolle in French, which Edna thought a little rude, under the circumstances, but characteristic.
10 First they took out the soil to make bricks, and then they filled it up again with garbage, which seemed to Jurgis and Ona a felicitous arrangement, characteristic of an enterprising country like America.
11 The Hurons had awaited the result of this short dialogue with characteristic patience, and with a silence that increased until there was a general stillness in the band.
12 Duncan, brave as he was in the combat, could not, in such a moment of painful suspense, make any reply to the cool and characteristic remark of the scout.
13 These two narratives gave a proper direction to the subsequent inquiries, which were now made with the characteristic cunning of savages.
14 On reaching it the girls deposited their burden, and continued for many minutes waiting, with characteristic patience, and native timidity, for some evidence that they whose feelings were most concerned were content with the arrangement.
15 She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
2 Windmills are a characteristic feature of the Mallorcan landscape.
3 This social mobility is a characteristic feature, and has two implications.
4 To say little and perform much is the characteristic of great minds.
5 Religious symbolism is very characteristic of the paintings of this period.
6 A characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek approval from others.
7 The Senate plan thus anticipated simplifying the review process characteristic of the categorical grants.
8 Treating people differently based on a certain characteristic is called discrimination.
9 Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.
10 Sympathy is the feeling characteristic of mankind.
11 Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.
12 Certain characteristics can be developed through selective breeding.
13 These two species share a common set of characteristics.
14 Meanwhile, Americanism sets a heavy cultural foundation for American romanticism with its own national characteristics.
15 Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.