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Example sentences for "detects"

Lexicographically close words:
detection; detective; detectives; detector; detectors; deteined; detent; detention; detentions; deter
  1. If the person detects the change and corrects the model, as well as the other interconnected models, this is a good indication of normality.

  2. That is, the local-ZM detects a bright point in a place, but at the second scan the point is not there anymore.

  3. It does not spoil the impression when the reader often detects him bragging or lying; the stamp of a mighty, energetic, and thoroughly developed nature remains.

  4. He detects in this belief the root of all impiety and immorality.

  5. His delight was more to excite merriment than detestation; and he detects follies rather than crimes.

  6. Tis quite Incomprehensible, that he detects not The foe so near!

  7. This compendious treatise is upon a most important subject, and detects dangerous errors enveloped in most insinuating sophistry.

  8. Each of these views is correct within certain limits; that is to say, there are dreams in which the strangest disorder seems to prevail, and others in which one detects the action of a central control.

  9. Statilius, Manius, a Lucanian, detects a stratagem of Hannibal, xxii.

  10. Tis quite 75 Incomprehensible, that he detects not The foe so near!

  11. A tale which, whether true or false, comes guarded Against all means of proof, detects itself.

  12. The kinship he detects between matter and spirit lies precisely in this, that matter is for him a created term of the Divine Thought.

  13. A fresh eye, with a keen brain behind it, often detects wasted work in a process long sanctioned by tradition.

  14. His quick perception detects Friend Frisbie behind the gun; and he smiles with his intelligent, fine-cut face.

  15. In Goethe's Faust, Margaret detects the evil in Mephistopheles: "You see that he with no soul sympathizes.

  16. God's law detects and denounces the least sin, so that without atonement it cannot be pardoned.

  17. Chronic cutaneous glanders, chronic farcy, usually begins by a local swelling, mostly of the fetlock, in the midst of which a careful examination detects a small glanderous nodule.

  18. When typhoid fever assumes a severe type, the success of the physician in the management of the disease will depend largely upon the readiness with which he detects indications for treatment and the promptness with which he meets them.

  19. One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.

  20. The action is in very strong contrast to the action of a sunfish, which detects its food by the sight.

  21. Chologaster papilliferus detects its food entirely by the sense of touch.

  22. Ralph has told her faithfully every word that passed between him and his father, and her delicate intuition detects the uncertainty and hollowness of it all.

  23. From all this results a suffering, restless, but prodigiously wary and attentive being, which detects not only the slightest contact, but the slightest noise.

  24. Where finds Philosophy her eagle eye, With which she gazes at yon burning disk Undazzled, and detects and counts his spots?

  25. Among our own birds there is only one, so far as I know that detects the egg of the cowbird when it is laid in the bird's nest, and that is the yellow warbler.

  26. All the other birds accept it as their own, but this warbler detects the imposition, and proceeds to get rid of the strange egg by burying it under a new nest bottom.

  27. You must be laughing at me," she says, in a voice in which he detects an undoubted tremor; "I am very much changed.

  28. She repeats the words after him with a lingering intonation, in which there again is, or, at least, he thinks that he detects it, a tinge of envy.

  29. If she understands her business practically and experimentally, her eye detects at once the weak spot; it requires only a little tact, some patience, some clearness in giving directions, and all comes right.

  30. Many of Koun's sculptures appear unfinished to eyes trained in Occidental galleries, whereas the Japanese connoisseur detects evidence of a technical feat in their seeming roughness.

  31. He detects in the stroke of a chisel and the lines of a graving tool subjective beauties which appear to be hidden from the great majority of Western dilettanti.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.