DISCRIMINATE in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for DISCRIMINATE, such as:
1. And yet even here we may discriminate.
2. You should not discriminate against minorities.
3. A number of features discriminate this species from others.
4. It's illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sex.
5. Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DISCRIMINATE
discriminate
 v.  treat differently on the basis of sex or race
 v.  recognize or perceive the difference
Classic Sentence:
1  And yet even here we may discriminate.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
2  Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
3  Whereas you"--he laughed again--"you have no instinct about people, no discrimination between the cheap and the great.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
5  If the men were taken back "without discrimination," he would lose his present place.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
6  The choice of servants is of no little importance to a prince, and they are good or not according to the discrimination of the prince.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
7  And the condition of the Negro is ever the excuse for further discrimination.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
9  I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  I do not wish to leave out an important branch of this subject, for it is a danger from which princes are with difficulty preserved, unless they are very careful and discriminating.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
12  Such misdemeanors needed discriminating treatment, firm but reformatory, with no hint of injustice, and full proof of guilt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
14  The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
15  First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  You should not discriminate against minorities.
2  The computer program was unable to discriminate between letters and numbers.
3  Under federal law, it is illegal to discriminate against minorities and women.
4  It's illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sex.
5  A number of features discriminate this species from others.
6  It's not just a notion when 46 states can still discriminate against same-sex couples getting married.
7  Critics believe the measures will discriminate against migrants with low levels of literacy and for whom English is not their first language.
8  The Sex Discrimination Act has not eliminated discrimination in employment.
9  There is widespread discrimination against doctors of Asian origin.
10  With the current job situation, age discrimination in employment is becoming more common.
11  She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.
12  We don't believe the myth that racial discrimination was imposed by God.
13  Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.
14  Racist remarks by an employer to an employee can amount to unlawful discrimination.
15  Newspapers should not publish material that is likely to encourage discrimination on the grounds of race or colour.