DISTINCTIVE in a Sentence

Learn DISTINCTIVE 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 DISTINCTIVE, such as:
1. The shell has a highly distinctive pattern.
2. African hyena noted for its distinctive howl.
3. This distinction is of absolutely central importance.
4. The aroma is distinctive, but in the end, it's a lemon.
5. Each house in the street has its own distinctive character.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DISTINCTIVE
distinctive
 a.  capable of being classified
 a.  of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But a Times leader is entirely distinctive, and these words could have been taken from nothing else.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
2  Each ear is as a rule quite distinctive and differs from all other ones.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
3  There could be no question that the most distinctive and suggestive point in the case was the singular disappearance of the door-key.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
4  But possessing all the grand distinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised him for one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
6  Usually in cities each street has its distinctive color, and only now and then do the colors meet in close proximity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death-warrant.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  It was Selden's distinction that he had never forgotten the way out.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  I seize the distinction, but I don't mind it, since doing the one involved doing the other.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  His decent gray suit, made by Nat Hicks of Gopher Prairie, might have been of sheet iron; it had no distinction of cut, no easy grace like the diplomat's Burberry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  It picks at information which will visibly procure money or social distinction.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
14  But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
15  There was not a man in Black Hawk who had the intelligence or cultivation, much less the personal distinction, of Antonia's father.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  African hyena noted for its distinctive howl.
2  Alcohol has a very distinctive smell; it's quite distinct from the smell of wine.
3  Each house in the street has its own distinctive character.
4  The most distinctive feature of the dinosaurs was their size.
5  As soon as I opened the front door I smelled the distinctive aroma of fresh coffee.
6  The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.
7  The shell has a highly distinctive pattern.
8  The pianist had to tailor his style to suit the vocalist's distinctive voice.
9  It is the retailer of unique, distinctive furniture in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
10  The aroma is distinctive, but in the end, it's a lemon.
11  The Dutch woman's drab winter coat contrasted with the distinctive, colorful native costume she wore beneath it.
12  Bird watchers identify different species of bird by their characteristic songs and distinctive plumage.
13  The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living.
14  He has gained a distinction in various fields of scholarly studies.
15  This distinction is of absolutely central importance.