DISTINGUISH in a Sentence

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251 example sentences for DISTINGUISH, such as:

1. She could not distinguish their eyes.
2. She distinguished herself in the arts.
3. He distinguished himself as a great lawyer.
4. Dr Miles was a distinguished scholar of Russian history.
5. I see you've been distinguishing yourself at school again.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTINGUISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distinguish
 v.  characterize; differentiate; recognize
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Their arms had slipped apart and they stood motionless, each seeking to distinguish the other's face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She braced her shoulders and went down among them, straining her eyes among the upright figures to distinguish Dr. Meade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  She could distinguish nothing but a volume of sound that rose and fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  And she sometimes wondered if he'd ever learn to distinguish between planking and sills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  For a long time Mammy strained her sharp ears but she could distinguish nothing except the clatter of silver on china, and the muffled soft tones of Melanie's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  It was not, after all, opportunity but imagination that he lacked: he had a mental palate which would never learn to distinguish between railway tea and nectar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
7  Only when she was in the motor car did she distinguish the three people who were to accompany them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  She could not distinguish their eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  would be impossible to distinguish among the actors when all gave such fine account of themselves in difficult roles of this well-known New York stage play.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  When they were most eager about soviets or canoeing, she listened, longed to have some special learning which would distinguish her, and sighed that her adventure had come so late.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  At any rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
12  The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
14  The main building was called "the house," to distinguish it from the cottages.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
15  Heyward could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout, through the increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his footsteps, swiftly, toward the place where he had left the remainder of the party.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  The Chinese nation is distinguished for its diligence and courage.
17  He was a loyal, distinguished and very competent civil servant.
18  He distinguished himself on several occasions in the civil war.
19  She distinguished herself in the arts.
20  Dr Miles was a distinguished scholar of Russian history.
21  This international award has set the seal on a long and distinguished career.
22  He distinguished himself as a great lawyer.
23  Each tuple in a relation is distinguished from another because one or more attributes in a relation are designated key attributes.
24  She was a distinguished scientist and a gifted painter into the bargain.
25  Lord Oxburgh is a geologist; at the end of a long and distinguished career in science, he has now found himself in the Shell chairman's seat.
26  Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer, as distinguished from the computer software that executes within it.
27  Postoperative complications should be distinguished from inevitable consequences of an operation.
28  The ionosphere is the uppermost part of the atmosphere, distinguished because it is ionized by solar radiation.
29  After distinguished service in World War II, he married a New York socialite and reacquired his reputation as a hard-partying dilettante.
30  I see you've been distinguishing yourself at school again.