This vicarious leisure class is distinguished from the leisure class proper by a characteristic feature of its habitual mode of life.
Atlantic coast where long narrow bars, sometimes forming skeleton capes, are a characteristic feature.
The rocks exposed in the mountains are largely of sedimentary origin, but a characteristic feature is the geology, especially to the west, in the presence of extensive volcanic areas and lofty mountains of igneous rocks.
A characteristic featureis the low value of tannin, which is considerably higher [Footnote: Ibid.
This conclusively proves that the blue coloration given by Neradol D with iron salts is no characteristic feature of the pure synthetic tannin, but is caused by the phenolic impurities accompanying the latter.
A characteristic featureof this synthetic tannin is its behaviour in concentrated form towards pelt, which is not attacked by it, but is readily tanned even at such high concentrations.
Captured slaves performed almost every service, and a lavish display of wealth on the part of a few came to be a characteristic feature of city life.
These new parish schools also contributed somewhat to the provision of elementary education, and mark the beginning of the church "voluntary schools" which were such a characteristic feature of nineteenth-century English education.
A characteristic feature is that the three tentacles are in a transverse line along the anterior edge, the median being thus inserted far in advance of the posterior eyes.
A characteristic feature is the elongate form of the nephridial papillae, these in the type as preserved being mostly near three times as long as thick at the middle.
A characteristic feature of terrestrial deserts, which is possessed in exaggerated degree by the moon, is the great extremes of temperature to which they and it are subject.
A characteristic feature of the more massive species is the occurrence of air-vesicles in their tissues.
In a whole series of Red Algae, the existence or a highly specialized auxiliary cell in the neighbourhood of the carpogonium is a characteristic feature.
Moderately elevated tablelands are thus the characteristic featureof the continent, though the surface of these is broken by higher peaks and ridges.
In a previous chapter we pointed out that war is a characteristic feature of a civilization that has passed the top-point of its expansion and begun to decline.
Success of one among the many competitors is a characteristic feature of the struggle for nuclear survival, development and perhaps for eventual supremacy.
If it is actually everything, it possesses no characteristic feature by which it can be distinguished from anything else, and discerned as an object of consciousness.
A characteristic feature of the modern practice of medicine is in improved forms of its administration.
In 1822 the important improvement of the reciprocating knife bar was made by Ogle, which became a characteristic feature of all subsequent successful reapers.
He also invented the far more important improvement of the four-motion feed, which is a characteristic feature of nearly all practical family sewing machines.
It may illustrate a characteristic feature in the progress of modern astronomy if I describe how Witt succeeded in obtaining this picture.
Seeing that the existence of intelligence is a characteristic feature of this earth, we feel naturally very much interested in the question as to whether there can be intelligent beings dwelling on other worlds around us.
A characteristic feature of gun cotton is that it may be detonated even when completely saturated with and immersed in water, if only some dry gun cotton be detonated in contact with it.
A characteristic feature of San Jose scale infection is the discolouration of the plant tissues immediately surrounding each insect, which turn a distinct red or purple, giving at once an indication that this scale is present.
A characteristic feature of infected eucalyptus is their blackened appearance, due to sooty mould growing on the copious honey-dew secreted by the scale.
A characteristic feature of this species is that no honey-dew is secreted, and hence there is a total absence of sooty mould on infested trees.
Each double leaf-trace passes through four internodes before becoming a part of the stele; the double nature of the trace is a characteristic feature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "characteristic feature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
