DISTINCTIVELY in a Sentence

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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. What had seemed impossible now seemed a distinct possibility.
5. It was Selden's distinction that he had never forgotten the way out.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTINCTIVELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distinctively
 ad.  in a distinctive manner; in a way that is notable for its difference; plainly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The result is still distinctively Negro and the method of blending original, but the elements are both Negro and Caucasian.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  It picks at information which will visibly procure money or social distinction.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  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.
9  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.
10  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
11  In fact, they knew nothing of any of their neighbors; their lodgers were all people of the highest distinction, they assured Edna.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
12  "'Tis the name his Canada fathers have given to Magua," returned the runner, with an air that manifested his pride at the distinction.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
13  I have no father to expect me, and but few friends to lament a fate which I have courted with the insatiable longings of youth after distinction.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  There was nothing in the air or attire of this Indian that would seem to entitle him to such a distinction.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  They advised her to be attentive to the wants of her companion, and never to forget the distinction which the Manitou had so wisely established between them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
16  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.
17  Although they look similar, these plants are actually quite distinct.
18  Engineering and technology are disciplines distinct from one another and from science.
19  Alcohol has a very distinctive smell; it's quite distinct from the smell of wine.
20  Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.
21  Each of London's districts had a distinct character that marked it off from its neighbours.
22  She was trying to remain calm, but there was a distinct edge to her voice.
23  The footprints are quite distinct; they must be fresh.
24  There was a distinct smell of gas.
25  She showed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the idea of becoming a mother.
26  Imprinting and cell differentiation both involve the closing down of genes but the mechanisms are evidently distinct.
27  It is necessary to keep these two issues distinct.
28  Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed, either by the participant himself or by an outside observer.
29  The period can be divided into three distinct phases.
30  What had seemed impossible now seemed a distinct possibility.