DISTINCT in a Sentence
Learn DISTINCT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
271 example sentences for DISTINCT, such as:
1. There was a distinct smell of gas.
2. It is necessary to keep these two issues distinct.
3. The period can be divided into three distinct phases.
4. All this time he had two distinct spiritual conditions.
5. What had seemed impossible now seemed a distinct possibility.
2. It is necessary to keep these two issues distinct.
3. The period can be divided into three distinct phases.
4. All this time he had two distinct spiritual conditions.
5. What had seemed impossible now seemed a distinct possibility.
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Meanings and Examples of DISTINCT
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distinct
a. constituting a separate entity or part
a. recognizable; marked
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable.
2 No distinct ideas occupied my mind; all was confused.
3 My sensations had by this time become distinct, and my mind received every day additional ideas.
4 There was, perhaps, a fortunate disorder in his utterance, which failed to impart any distinct idea to the good widows comprehension, or which Providence interpreted after a method of its own.
5 Thus calling him back as I went out of the door, I heard her say to Joe in a distinct emphatic voice, "The boy has been a good boy here, and that is his reward."
6 It will presently be seen that the question was not before me in a distinct shape until it was put before me by a wiser head than my own.
7 Though I quite understood that the purpose of this announcement was to get rid of me, I have no distinct remembrance whether it pleased or frightened me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
8 Yet it was busy, too, with all the remembrances the place naturally awakened; and they were particularly distinct and vivid.
9 I believed that she had read, or partly read, my thoughts that night; and that she fully comprehended why I gave mine no more distinct expression.
10 Her voice was lively, eager, with exceedingly distinct intonations.
11 A young deacon, whose long back showed in two distinct halves through his thin undercassock, met him, and at once going to a little table at the wall read the exhortation.
12 Many of his old ideas seemed to him superfluous and extreme, but many blanks became distinct to him when he reviewed the whole thing in his memory.
13 "Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty.
14 "At home for sure," said the peasant, shifting from one bare foot to the other, and leaving a distinct print of five toes and a heel in the dust.
15 All this time he had two distinct spiritual conditions.
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1 The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.
2 Although they look similar, these plants are actually quite distinct.
3 Engineering and technology are disciplines distinct from one another and from science.
4 Alcohol has a very distinctive smell; it's quite distinct from the smell of wine.
5 Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.
6 Each of London's districts had a distinct character that marked it off from its neighbours.
7 She was trying to remain calm, but there was a distinct edge to her voice.
8 The footprints are quite distinct; they must be fresh.
9 There was a distinct smell of gas.
10 She showed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the idea of becoming a mother.
11 Imprinting and cell differentiation both involve the closing down of genes but the mechanisms are evidently distinct.
12 It is necessary to keep these two issues distinct.
13 Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed, either by the participant himself or by an outside observer.
14 The period can be divided into three distinct phases.
15 What had seemed impossible now seemed a distinct possibility.