America, as well as the young of both sexes, do not possess the black stripes on the nose, and the blackish-brown line on the breast which characterise the adult males.
If they are regarded as sights to be beheld, we shall characterise them as they affect our sense of vision.
If mountains are primarily thought of as things to be climbed, we shall characterise them as they react upon the climber.
It is therefore important to characterise a general action in its modern form before we advance with the study of its employment in strategy.
These calculations are the result of experience; but it is important to us at the same time to characterise more particularly the moment of the decision, and consequently the termination.
All parents are ambitious that their offspring shall be distinguished by the energy, the stability, the endurance and the power which characterise the cream of humanity.
They characterise equally each group of successful pioneers, whether they be the Pilgrim Fathers of the sixteenth, the Huguenots of the seventeenth, or the successful colonist of the nineteenth century.
He has all the boundless curiosity, the thirst for knowledge miscellaneous, pulpy, and piquant, which characterise those that dwell remote.
His abilities are superior on the whole and he would without fail characterise any appointment with honesty.
It is not till he has passed successive lustres, that he attains that firm step, and temperate and settled accent, which characterise the man complete.
One of the most obvious views which are presented to us by man in society is the inoffensiveness and innocence that ordinarily characterise him.
If there is one word which can characterise this whole phenomenon, both in its principle and in its consummation, it is falsehood.
The Apostle has spoken of order and discipline, and of the joyful and devout temper which should characterise the Christian Church; and here he comes to speak of that Spirit in which the Church lives, and moves, and has her being.
The following reactions characterise the ordinary or other phosphates:--1.
Horses are occasionally attacked with typhoid fever, the symptoms of which bear a general resemblance to those which characterise the disease in the human subject.
In absolute width one specimen actually surpasses the Mauer jaw, but yet fails to rival that bone in respect of the great width found to characterise the ascending ramus in that example.
Yet it is quite uncommon in this degree among modern European crania, though alleged by Giuffrida Ruggeri to characterise certain skulls from the Far East.
But the extent to which the Mongolian head-form and peculiar physiognomy characterise one widely diffused section of the population of the eastern continent, gives it special prominence among the great ethnical divisions of the human race.
To characterise it in one word, we might call it Assyrian art interpreted by barbarians.
The limbs are plump and rounded: no more of those exaggerated muscles which characterise Assyrian art; nothing Eastern in the insignificant features of the face.
Here is a rugged mountainous road, leading through impervious shades: the ass and the four goats characterise a wild uncultured scene.
There are stories without number of him; and I will relate one or two solely because they characterise him, and those to whom they also relate.
I have selected two anecdotes out of a hundred others of the same kind, because they characterise the man.
Two incidents amongst a thousand willcharacterise her.
For the rest we need only observe that progress and rich diversity of forms characterise the other groups of animals.
It is more natural to suppose that millions of years of volcanic activity on a prodigious scale would characterise this early stage, and the "primitive crust" would be buried in fragments, or dissolved again, under deep seas of lava.
It may be inferred from hence that the high estimation of female chastity, and implacable resentment consequent upon injuries in that respect, which nowcharacterise Eastern manners, did not prevail in the age of Herodotus.
We say appears, because up to this time nothing is related of his private life: it is not probable, however, that the historian would have omitted occurrences such as those which characterise it from henceforward.
Here were fought triumphant battles, but here also compromises were made which characterise the essence of Catholicism as Church and as doctrine.
There are certain peculiarities which characterise these memorials of the race.
The large turbans and long moustaches and beards no longer characterise their appearance, and the only point which distinguishes a Rajput is that his name ends with Singh (lion).
There is about the young Oraon a jaunty air and mirthful expression that distinguishes him from the Munda or Ho, who has more of the dignified gravity that is said to characterise the North American Indian.
If genuine thought and equally genuine theology do not characterise our hours of devotion, we lose some of the most precious opportunities of grace and blessing.
And the association of glory with prayer seems to suggest that the praise of His glory which is to characterise our life can only come from God Himself as the Father of glory.
He does not characterise the moment; but I think he means to say a moment in which I happen to be without my cravat.
The doctor gives me all their names, together with a corresponding number of adjectives ending in "ic," which serve to characterise their detestable qualities.
And eventually he gave it as his opinion, that these fish "were created under the circumstances in which they now live, within the limits over which they now range, and with the structural peculiarities which now characterise them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "characterise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
