Discern has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It is hard to discern between the true and the false. | |
| 2. | The inky litre of blueberry juice needed something else to make it taste better, but he could not discern what that something could be. | |
| 3. | However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses. | |
| 4. | He can't discern fact from fiction. | |
| 5. | With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodaktyly, from common vampires. | |
| 6. | Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. | |
| 7. | I was near you, when you sat beneath those beech-trees, and piped and sang the praises of your sweetheart Amaryllis: I was close to the damsel, but you could not discern me. I gave her to you, and some brave boys, who are now excellent husbandmen and herdsmen, are the pledges of your love. | |
| 8. | While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern. | |
| 9. | He just talks, he don't discern. | |
| 10. | The sun had now risen, and showed its broad disk above the eastern sea, so that he could easily discern the horseman who rode towards him with speed which argued impatience equal to his own. |