How To Use Distinctively In A Sentence

  • Peace, prosperity, democracy, environmental conservation and the elimination of racism and ethnocentrism are all overtly gender-neutral ideals, but each of them is also a distinctively women's issue.
  • Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen it distinctively. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
  • Even if you don't own a bird, these splendid cages make for unusual and decorative souvenirs with a distinctively Chinese look.
  • Garments with a burnout pattern tend to be heavy, because of the weight of the base fabric, leading them to drape distinctively.
  • The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
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  • From this vantage point, contemporary sport no longer seems a distinctively modern phenomenon. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fact that the genealogy of such claims is so distinctively national does not in itself disqualify them: any general truth will have a local point of origin.
  • It's played out in cinema-verité, all rough cutting, long track shots and, in the end, a distinctively and deliberately unpolished style.
  • Linguine carbonara, though Italian rather than French in style, is delicious, with a distinctively creamy taste.
  • Both leopards and jaguars have a similar brownish yellow base fur colour, which is distinctively marked with dark rosette markings.
  • Disobeying the 19th-century "rule" laid down at Le Cercle de Linguistique de Paris (forbidding the presentation of any paper dealing with the origin of language), Waldron presents a theory, that is at once logical, biological, and psychological, showing how language naturally emerges from its prelinguistic antecedents (perceptual and behavioral) to become the key factor in the development of a distinctively human kind of intelligence and thought. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
  • Other rooms have a distinctively oriental flavour; the Throne Room is decked out in ornate Byzantine style with a great domed blue ceiling covered with stars and a huge sunburst.
  • Apulia's finest wines are produced in the Salento peninsula, the heel of the boot, where distinctively full but not unappetizingly alcoholic wines are made from the conjunction of climate, vine variety, and vine training system.
  • I wouldn't have seen them without my monocular - a group of four, one male, with the distinctively tall, black, backward-arching horns, and three females.
  • The cheese has a distinctively sharp taste.
  • The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
  • The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
  • There is not room here for a full explication of these distinctively Lutheran perspectives.
  • Azoria is the local toponym for a distinctively rounded and double-peaked hill overlooking the Bay of Mirabello in northeastern Crete.
  • Dr. Ramachandran takes this even further: Mirror neurons, he claims, are the key to many modes of distinctively human communication and they are the reason we are "the one and only species that veritably lives and breathes culture. The Mind in the Mirror
  • A few years ago the terms catechu, terra japonica, and cutch were employed synonymously; they are now, however, for the most part used in trade somewhat distinctively, though not uniformly in the same sense. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • The 'inscape' of a being is the distinctive controlling energy that makes the being itself and connects it distinctively with all else. Encounter: a meeting that becomes decisive
  • Oblong, lance-shaped pinnatisect bright green fronds rise vaselike from a central trunk and maintain their verticality, making for a distinctively architectural form. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Returning envelopes containing ballot papers are also distinctively marked to aid sorting.
  • Public Enemy is different, visibly trying to be a distinctively Korean genre film.
  • This distinctively narrative work presents a host of motifs that recur throughout Schreuders' printed works, including mermaids and sculpted figures.
  • In England, it remained distinctively regional, and was particularly associated with areas of Puritan activism and social predominance like Essex.
  • It's unfortunate that the developers are making the wrong kind of splash by being distinctively off-message.
  • Other rooms have a distinctively oriental flavour; the Throne Room is decked out in ornate Byzantine style with a great domed blue ceiling covered with stars and a huge sunburst.
  • It was further declared that all such questions were regarded as essentially and distinctively American and that the United States would always prefer to see such contentions adjusted through the arbitrament of an American, rather than a European power.
  • If presumably neither, the concert certainly was distinctively Pogorelich - an attribute that will continue to repel distracters and lure fans from all over the country.
  • It is just one of the properties that now offer the height of chic at distinctively low prices.
  • A distinctively prickly, pessimistic, faintly unrewarding comedy of embarrassment. Involuntary – review
  • Their tail, over half of the body length, is distinctively bicolored.
  • The distinctively flavored Mexican chocolate has a grainier texture than other chocolates, so don't skip the step using a sieve. Mexican chocolate ice cream: Helado de chocolate mexicano
  • This is why there is only one spiration; the spiration is always from the Father; but the Son is with the Father in the Spirit's being breathed forth by the Father, and thus distinctively interposes without detriment to the Spirit's full Godhead. Archive 2007-05-01
  • Instead she has chosen to gather a harvest more distinctively and peculiarly her own, a decision that sounds more sensible with each subsequent listen.
  • The second movement, 'Andante', had a distinctively soothing feel, which lulled the audience.
  • This gave the placoderms a distinctively narrow gape.
  • The island's dive centre is set at the end of Lankayan's distinctively long jetty, which also boasts a rather nifty helicopter pad - which is more often used for strategically placed sunloungers.
  • One theme that's risen to prominence in the discussion is the incommunicability of the distinctively personal. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Herod Antipas is distinctively called the tetrarch in Matt. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
  • Maria Callas needs no promotion, yet her distinctively fiery, passionate style was not equally suited to every role.
  • Yet it is precisely the objection of the Orthodox to certain distinctively Catholics dogmas, such as the Immaculate Conception, that they purport to make what are only allowable theologoumena into dogmas. The latest development in the development discussion
  • ‘What they are losing is a chunk of feature material which is what makes it distinctively Scottish,’ said one experienced producer.
  • There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.
  • Growing to a height of some thirty metres, the bark is distinctively ridged and furrowed and has characteristic large burrs or bosses.
  • The latter is distinctively the "custom of Kent," and signifies that the land was "partible," and inherited by the sons in equal shares, the youngest son retaining the homestead, and making compensation to his brethren for this addition to his share. The Customs of Old England
  • The athletic disc jockey is a distinctively contemporary phenomenon.
  • The play has a distinctively harsh and gritty vocabulary and poetic tone throughout, thriving on rough monosyllables.
  • The British Columbia province is distinctively bifurcated into the lush green forests and the dry and arid region.
  • We must suppose either that the bishops introduced directly by a positive precept as a liturgical pontifical badge a humeral cloth resembling the ordinary omophorion and called by that name, or that the civil omophorion was at first used by the bishops as a mere ornament without any special significance, but in the course of time gradually developed into a distinctively episcopal ornament, and finally assumed the character of an episcopal badge of office. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Hellmann, who has a distinctively metallic voice, read out the verdict in the vaulted and frescoed 14th-century courtroom that has been the scene of an appeal swept by emotion, high tension and furious dispute. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito cleared of murder
  • A decade earlier England's "Barnacle", Trevor Bailey, and Australia's Ken "Slasher" Mackay, the latter earning his nickname in distinctively ironic Antipodean fashion just like "Curly" was given to bald men and "Bluey" to the red of hair, faced no such sanctions. Pakistan's Azhar joins Barnacle and Boycott as new kid with the block | Rob Bagchi
  • In England, it remained distinctively regional, and was particularly associated with areas of Puritan activism and social predominance like Essex.
  • He was generous with hugs, cuddles and games on the floor, and he smelt distinctively of cologne and soap. Times, Sunday Times
  • The French influence, most apparent in early examples such as Cologne Cathedral, gradually gave way to more distinctively local variations, as in the cathedrals of Ulm and Freiburg.
  • While appealing to intellectuals, it was distinctively proletarian in doctrine and temper.
  • Moreover, the distinctively dense scopae typical for eucerines are conspicuously absent in the fossil.
  • Can teachers wear distinctively religious clothing in public schools?
  • It is distinctively hybrid in character: the EU's largest central administration and main policy manager, but also a source of political and policy direction.
  • the distinctively conservative district of the county
  • Maria Callas needs no promotion, yet her distinctively fiery, passionate style was not equally suited to every role.
  • By writing in epideictic's distinctively biographical but general terms, she can catch up in her apostrophes a Byron, a Hume, 'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
  • I don't think many people beyond the soldiers serving in those regiments would be able to tell you their regimental mottoes, so they are not distinctively military in use.
  • We are also partnering with home decor licensors to bring distinctively unique styles of wall decor to our retailers.
  • There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.
  • Alan Wolfe has an interesting essay on liberal hawks (via Jon Chait) that I think winds up going a bit awry by running together humanitarian arguments about the desirability of military intervention in particular (whether or not the arguer wanted to invade Iraq), with national security arguments about the desirability of invading Iraq that were offered by liberals (whether or not the arguer was making any distinctively “liberal” appeals). Matthew Yglesias » Alan Wolfe on Liberal Hawks
  • Like jazz, rap extravagantly syncopates a flexible rhythm against a fixed metrical beat thereby turning a traditional English folk meter into something distinctively African-American.
  • The narrative voice, written in Palahniuk's distinctively flat and declarative language, is a collective one.
  • Even if you don't own a bird, these splendid cages make for unusual and decorative souvenirs with a distinctively Chinese look.
  • The enormous influence of his woodcuts and engravings turned the print into a significant and distinctively German art form.
  • The orchestra had a distinctively warm and mellow sound.
  • There is a truthfulness to the second part that makes it distinctively better and more interesting than the first.
  • This must not be understood distinctively, as if some things of God were visible and some invisible; that is, of things belonging to the divine nature; but it must be understood adversatively, that is, though they are invisible, and notwithstanding their in visibility, they are yet clearly demonstrable by the things that are made. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • This attempt (in Connell's words [28]) to promote the participation of distinctively aristocratic cultural practices within a broader. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
  • The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.
  • The site missed the news that the distinctively daffy television presenter has been named the top British secret fantasy figure.
  • Available in Cracked Ice or Classic Black with a capless ball point writing system, the DaVinci barrel is engraved with the signature of Leonardo da Vinci true to his distinctively unique style of writing in reverse. Master Nib | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • It came with a sauce Gribiche (a thick egg mayo type version of the caper sauce) and a salad of tender lambs' lettuce with a subtle but still distinctively walnut oil vinaigrette.
  • Growing to a height of some thirty metres, the bark is distinctively ridged and furrowed and has characteristic large burrs or bosses.
  • The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.
  • Out of such stratagems was born the distinctively Dutch combination of individualism and communitarianism, which is still alive and well today.
  • The bony helmet on his head, called a casque, is distinctively bent and on one side appears rectangular. Birdology
  • Their tail, over half of the body length, is distinctively bicolored.
  • He was generous with hugs, cuddles and games on the floor, and he smelt distinctively of cologne and soap. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then he gave her penance and absolution and heard her footsteps moving away in the slow clicking gait that was distinctively hers. THE SERPENT'S MARK
  • Christian catechesis meant learning the distinctively Christian language formed by the Scriptures.
  • The tympanic bone is distinctively annular (ring-shaped).
  • There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.
  • The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
  • The band might evoke a gallery of role models, but its musical scent remains purely and distinctively Pavement.
  • These words become in Latin, cymba, and cymbalum; and I think you will find it entirely convenient and advantageous to call the leaf-stalk distinctively the 'cymba,' retaining the mingled idea of cup and boat, with respect at least to the part of it that holds the bud; and understanding that it gathers itself into a V-shaped, or even narrowly vertical, section, as a boat narrows to its bow, for strength to sustain the leaf. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
  • Cetti’s warbler is a skulking bird that tends to stay hidden in river-bank foliage, its distinctively explosive song giving its location away. Archive 2006-05-01
  • It may be a tongue-twister for non-Dutch speakers to pronounce, but the food - simple, tasty and distinctively homemade - crosses all borders.
  • Well before the Gallimard series no less a writer than Camus would draw significantly upon the pulp policier in creating his distinctively cold narrative eye on an indifferent world, the clipped dialogue, the neutral surfaces.
  • There are those who write and act as if their object were to assimilate woman as much as possible to man, by dropping all that is distinctively feminine out of her, and putting into her as large an amount of masculineness as possible. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
  • Yet he made each as distinctively his own as his trademark sunglasses and razor-sharp suits.
  • Like jazz, rap extravagantly syncopates a flexible rhythm against a fixed metrical beat thereby turning a traditional English folk meter into something distinctively African-American.
  • Neither really confronts other than tangentially how being a port distinctively shaped the urban environment and the urban experience.
  • These two Greek-speakers proceeded to expound the Scriptures and the Greek Fathers to the Anglo-Saxons in a distinctively eastern mode, giving pride of place to rhetoric.
  • Temkey's commanding vocal declamation and warm, high lying, distinctively French baritonal sound recall Francis Poulenc's collaborator and frequent interpreter Pierre Bernac.

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