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Example sentences for "discriminate"

Lexicographically close words:
discretion; discretional; discretionary; discretions; discrimen; discriminated; discriminates; discriminating; discrimination; discriminations
  1. Because there are hosts who do not discriminate as to the eggs or the butter they eat, it does not follow that a normal taste should not know the difference.

  2. As far as I can see, all sorts of people intermarry, and I don't see how you can discriminate socially--where the lines are.

  3. Their theories seem to them not only practical, but they try to apply them to actual legislation; at any rate, they discriminate in vagaries.

  4. I do not mean in the least to speak with scorn or contempt of the lack of power justly to discriminate and to appreciate which comes from either natural disability or lack of opportunities of cultivation.

  5. We had learned to discriminate by its noise, long before we could see a rapid, whether it was filled with rocks, or was merely a descent of big water.

  6. He was wont to say that he feared no poison in his food, since he could discriminate the least adulteration of natural flavors.

  7. An attempt was made to discriminate between the good and the bad fairy story.

  8. You must have a county library with a county administration, because you cannot have anything but the county library; you cannot discriminate between one part of the county and another.

  9. Firepower Discriminate fires are important due to the likelihood of people and structures being in close proximity to the desired target.

  10. The former would discriminate between real & ostensible property in the latter; But he was aware of the difficulty of forming any uniform standard that would suit the different circumstances & opinions prevailing in the different States.

  11. It is not possible to discriminate equity cases from those in which juries are proper.

  12. It, of course, will be found very difficult to discriminate such phenomena from real restitutions, though logically there exists a very sharp line between them.

  13. If you, who draw, desire to study well and to good purpose, always go slowly to work in your drawing; and discriminate in.

  14. And it is only the central and sensible line that can discern and discriminate colours and objects; all the others are false and illusory.

  15. Timanthes had marked the limits that discriminate terror from the excess of horror; Aristides drew the line that separates it from disgust.

  16. He is to give us the idea of a Roman dying amidst Romans, as tradition gave him, with all the real modifications of time and place, which may serve unequivocally to discriminate that moment of grief from all others.

  17. There is a failure to discriminate the peculiar marks of Antony and Cleopatra itself, marks which, whether or no it be the equal of the earlier tragedies, make it decidedly different.

  18. It would be easier for him to "look out for all the little things" than to discriminate among them, for intelligent selection requires more real thinking.

  19. It is largely the teacher's fault if children show no power to discriminate the values of facts to themselves, and to determine when they know a thing.

  20. Even if the extreme view be held that the only form of discriminate elimination that counts is inter-organismal competition, this might be included under the rubric of the animate environment.

  21. Similarly the two types may be described as A + a and A + b, so that a and b denote the specific differences which discriminate the families from one another.

  22. A test to discriminate the spurious and the authentic will one day be secured.

  23. That's all very well, Bob, but I can discriminate between your seriousness and your farce.

  24. You talk about your affection for me and anxiety to serve me, and when I want something definite of you, you go off into the Byronic, or the Platonic, or what you would perhaps call the humorous: it is not easy to discriminate them.

  25. But the spirit of chivalry could seldom discriminate caution from cowardice; and the emperor took the field with a hundred and forty knights, and their train of archers and sergeants.

  26. It was proposed by Arnold to revive and discriminate the equestrian order; but what could be the motive or measure of such distinction?

  27. On the other hand they do not discriminate against civilization per se, and the Chats of Cannon Hill, in Spokane, are as grateful to the good sense of its citizens as are the Catbirds and two score other resident species of songsters.

  28. Pygmy size; the smallest of the northern ranging species; gorget of male with radiating feathers of rose-purple hue distinctive, but female hard to discriminate afield.

  29. Therefore we should discriminate in coal.

  30. Her instinct served her up to a certain point, but it did not enable her to discriminate between those rafters.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discriminate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accurate; analyze; appreciative; argument; change; contrast; critical; cull; delicate; demarcate; difference; differential; differentiate; discern; discriminate; discriminating; disjoin; distinctive; distinguish; distinguishing; diversify; divide; element; equation; exact; extremity; fastidious; favor; fine; formula; individualize; know; mark; modify; nice; particularize; pick; precise; prefer; refined; screen; segregate; select; selective; sensitive; separate; sever; sieve; sift; sort; specialize; subdivide; subtle; tactful; tell; vary; winnow