We found 38 examples of how to use distinction in an English sentence.
Sentences 26 to 38 of 38.
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| 26. | This isn't a real distinction. | |
| 27. | The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. | |
| 28. | It had been Bucklaw's misfortune, that his habits of life had not rendered him familiarly acquainted with the higher and better classes of female society, so that, with all his natural audacity, he felt sheepish and bashful when it became necessary to address a lady of distinction. | |
| 29. | Tyrosine is similar in structure to phenylalanine, with the important distinction that the latter contains a hydroxyl group in its side chain. | |
| 30. | Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.” | |
| 31. | With this distinction, a nation that dies for its independence considers that humanity resorted to every sacrifice required by its honor and dignity, and, of course, when compared to a numb, dishonorable nation that puts the chain of imprisonment around its neck, its place in the eyes of friends and enemies is very different. | |
| 32. | You look like a woman of distinction. | |
| 33. | George Washington made a point of declaring that Thanksgiving should be celebrated by people of all faiths, a distinction that still resonates for Americans, including immigrants marking their first Thanksgiving. | |
| 34. | I think that that's an important distinction. | |
| 35. | I think that's an important distinction. | |
| 36. | Since that time the distinction between the two races, the conqueror or Gothic and the Roman or conquered, had almost disappeared, and the men of the north had become confounded with those of midday in a single nation, to whose grandiosity had contributed that with the rough virtues of savage Germania, this with the traditions of Roman culture and polity. | |
| 37. | He makes no distinction between right and wrong. | |
| 38. | We're all Brazilians, without distinction for race or color. |