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Example sentences for "different from"

  • They seemed to arise solely from an intense curiosity or desire to possess something which they had not been accustomed to before, and belonging to a sort of people so different from themselves.

  • The ideas of those, from whom we were to learn the words, were so different from ours, that it was difficult to fix them to the object of enquiry.

  • That in which all these powers have their abode, that is the other great form of Hari, different from the (material) Visva form.

  • The trees and bushes there were different from others in the immediate vicinity, and, to me, seemed chiefly new.

  • If an Acacia, Mr. Bentham says, it is different from any he knows.

  • Faith is different from proof; the one is human, the other is a gift of God.

  • But blood-relationship had little or nothing to do with their system, so different from that of the Celts.

  • This at once explains why the posterity of Japhet is so different from that of Sem and of Cham.

  • The Norman invaders of Ireland, in the twelfth century, were struck with the easy freedom of manner and speech of the people, so different from that of the lower orders in feudal countries.

  • In Sanskrit treatises the style of argument and methods of treating the different topics are altogether different from what we find in any modern work of philosophy.

  • He further asks, Is this consciousness the same as the previous consciousness or different from it?

  • Indian modes of expression, entailing difficult technical philosophical terms are so different from those of European thought, that they can hardly ever be accurately translated.

  • So though it is the same as they are yet in a sense it is different from them [Footnote ref 3].

  • Their note is as different from that of the Italian poems as the national temper of Germany is from that of Italy.

  • Of course, he replied; but I wish that you would tell me whether you conceive this supreme principle of the good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different from either?

  • Yes, I replied, if passion, which has already been shown to be different from desire, turn out also to be different from reason.

  • In short, everything they have is different from ours, and finer and better.

  • In this kingdom and all over India the birds and beasts are entirely different from ours, all but one bird which is exactly like ours, and that is the Quail.

  • I should note that the orientation is different from that of the map of the city already given.

  • Seems to be different from any of the other Latin versions.

  • Name and form, we reply, which can be defined neither as being identical with Brahman nor as different from it, unevolved but about to be evolved.

  • Brahman which the mantra had proclaimed, is again proclaimed in the passage under discussion, 'different from this is the other inner Self, which consists of bliss.

  • The assurance of faith is different from that of logic and experience, but not inferior to it.

  • Japan, too, has her history, different from that of other countries.

  • In some marked respects it is different from that of lands in which democratic thought has held sway.

  • Were the Japanese mere imitators, how could we explain their architecture, so different from that of China and Korea?

  • The result has been the creation of an entirely new system, different from any of those models we have adopted.

  • A man's sense of humour is different from a woman's; when you go into the world you must be careful not to laugh just because a man makes a joke, until you are quite sure that it is one to laugh at.

  • And supposing it were so, if none but authors are men, the whole human race is different from us.

  • The natural endowment of the West was so different from that of the East that the former did not attract the people who settled in the Tidewater.

  • The materialistic craving in Polly for a good meal was so different from Eleanor's dreams of romance for her friend that the two elder Brewsters felt relieved to hear the exclamation.

  • Eleanor, gazing in open curiosity at the scenery and buildings so different from that of the city.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural work; constitutional amendment; different authors; different class; different denominations; different diameters; different direction; different directions; different districts; different individuals; different kind; different latitudes; different lengths; different nature; different races; different regions; different seasons; different sections; different shades; different sizes; different times; different tone; different words; giving power; make believe; more reason