How To Use Distinctly In A Sentence

In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
Their bodies are not distinctly segmented, but an important feature of their anatomy is the carapace, a folded shell-like structure which covers the animal and opens both ventrally and posteriorly.
This year, Artweek celebrates its tenth anniversary, and events have a distinctly cosmopolitan flavour.
Noradrenaline decreased I_(K) distinctly. Isoprenaline and acetylcholine showed no effect on I_(K) in isolated rat hepatocytes.
The shell surface is distinctly annulated along its sides, with broad annulae that are separated by deep narrow grooves.

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And Bob and uh others … I was pointing a usage of the word enjoy in a specific way … made possible by todays culture of "enjoy" that is distinctly different from the way the Westminster catechesim uses the word. Reclaiming the Mission
We were doing our best, but our role was becoming distinctly secondary.
She landed on the hood, feetfirst, with a metallic thunk and a distinctly less metallic snap. Crossed
They also represent one artist's vision and interpretation of something that must have seemed distinctly exciting and foreign.
Indeed, it is highly unlikely that White would capture on b7 in this line, 17 0-0 looking distinctly superior.
It is not on its deathbed, but it is looking distinctly unwell. Times, Sunday Times
As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
Training the reflective function is the training of character, while the training of the purely physical side often, and the training of the intellectual side not uncommonly, have a distinctly deteriorative effect. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
He is also able to bring the ball back off the seam into right-handers, a quality that makes two of India's top batsmen, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman, look distinctly uncomfortable.
He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics. 井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print
His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later,(Sentence dictionary) were distinctly half-hearted.
While MGM’s stuff reveled in schmaltz, Warners piled on the panache with a distinctly modern sensibility. 2008 August : Scrubbles.net
The textures of thunder eggs can vary from distinctly radiating fibrous textures to cryptocrystalline aggregates that preserve the structure of the original rhyolite.
By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
In contrast to soba, which tastes distinctly of buckwheat, the flavour of udon is neutral, allowing any number of variations in the additional ingredients, such as vegetables, seaweeds, eggs, fish, shellfish, poultry.
They had little tigerish stripes on them, and distinctly longish beaks. Times, Sunday Times
There was general dulness throughout the lower part of both, with the exception of a small space at the inferior angle of the left scapula, where pectoriloquy was distinctly heard, from which was concluded the cavernous state of a portion of that lung. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
The spectacle of the former naval officers washing their dirty linen in public was distinctly embarrassing.
I seem to remember that I managed to last out, but by the end I felt distinctly nauseous.
To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
Yet for some strange reason that I simply couldn't comprehend, he was distinctly unwilling to start unscrewing the doors from their hinges.
Cities have their own, distinctly unharmonious giving league, which recently featured an exchange of insults between rival bidders for the Olympics.
I never went on some crazy adventure, this lumbering failure of a journey not included, I never got to do any distinctly princely duties…
So I was distinctly underwhelmed when a colleague smugly confided that he was a dream date ‘because he cook’.
Our road was along the line of the Kuban, the river separating Russia from Circassia; for though the Emperor includes the latter country among "all the Russias," the frontier is as distinctly traced as that of Persia or China. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
The Esquimaux prefer it raw in these parts of the world (although some travellers assert that in more southern latitudes they prefer cooked meat), and with good reason, for it is much more nourishing than cooked flesh; and learned, scientific men, who have wintered in the Arctic regions, have distinctly stated that in those cold countries they found raw meat to be better for them than cooked meat, and they assure us that they at last came to _prefer_ it! The World of Ice
We have seen a fin whale today, along with petrels, jaegers, and murres, all distinctly northern birds. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
Once there, they were treated to the sight and sound of the club's vice-chairman orchestrating the post-match analysis in a distinctly uncomplimentary manner.
Some of the sadhus were distinctly scary - like the Aghoris with their bells and boar tusks and magic mantras, who insulted their amused but decorous Nepalese audience.
The pollen cells are formed from mother cells by a process of cell division and subsequent setting free of the daughter cells or pollen cells by rejuvenescence, which is distinctly comparable with that of the formation of the microspores of Lycopodiaceæ, etc. The subsequent behavior of the pollen cell, its division and its fertilization of the germinal vesicle or oosphere, leave no doubt as to its analogy with the microspore of vascular cryptogams. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
The mysterious stranger took his departure; Laura Lipping distinctly saw a snarl of baffled rage reveal itself behind his heavy moustache and upturned astrachan collar. Literature
Conclusion: Oxiracetam can distinctly improve the brain function of the mild and moderate brain injure, and have better efficacy than piracetam.
So why risk all that in a venture that some feel distinctly uneasy about? Times, Sunday Times
And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama.
Feeling distinctly unsocial, Gabriel turned to the countess. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
By 1926, however, the secular beauty had become distinctly secondary.
It was a cowardly attack by a strong man on a distinctly weaker woman. The Sun
The brocade incorporates Chinese symbols such as the dragon, fusing Islamic motifs like vine and floral patterns with a distinctly Far-Eastern style.
And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island.
And the main plank of the justification of his view was distinctly wobbly. Times, Sunday Times
When Romulus had laid out the pomoerium, he made the outline something like a square, and called it _Roma Quadrata_, that is "Square Rome," but he did not direct the landmarks of the public domain to be distinctly indicated. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by {81} day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest _chiaroscuro_. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
She also brought back Suzanne whose nose had returned to normal and who looked distinctly sheepish. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome. The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
He speaks excellent Spanish but with a distinctly foreign intonation.
Some of the lads were beginning to look distinctly peaky.
And the main plank of the justification of his view was distinctly wobbly. Times, Sunday Times
Hippidion was so distinctly different from other horses that it was considered to have diverged from the equid lineage about 10 million years ago.
The town is distinctly Italian in feel, with a smattering of luxury hotels and art galleries tucked away in its winding, narrow streets.
From one of the shelves, I distinctly heard a pack of conchiglie, big shell-shaped pasta, calling my name with their many little voices.
Their aroma bears some resemblance to bay laurel, though it is distinctly stronger, with a dominant eucalyptus note from cineole. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The bilayer is not a homogeneous film, but its chemical composition and molecular structure distinctly varies along the membrane normal.
ONE SHOULD never call a person disabled, they are differently and distinctly abled in all respects.
Conte's robotlike bugs have a distinctly spooky look, conjuring the frequent sci-fi fear about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the planet. Dr. Terminator: The Prosthetics Designer Who Makes Sci-Fi Sculptures
At the same time his subdued speaking style has left some prospective voters distinctly underwhelmed. Times, Sunday Times
Mr.R. R.che, J.P., who lives a mile from Edenburn, also distinctly heard the explosion, which he describes as resembling in sound that caused by the fall of a huge tree in close proximity. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
They can meet you when you arrive in each area, which makes dealing with the inevitable scrum of touts distinctly less daunting.
His rueful recollections shed light on an often-perplexing artistic career, one that has left him looking distinctly battle-weary.
Close by the inn stood the ancient church, and the shrill, discordant clack of the cracked bell could be distinctly heard in the ballroom.
Even so, this is a distinctly more nobby Sonata than anyone has seen, a far cry from the upper-echelon mini cab that it formerly was.
The interior, even on a Calais, still shrieks its distinctly working car roots; a general plasticky look and feel which ill behoves a $50,000 car.
Apocalyptic thunderstorms bookend the show, the first one orphaning a distinctly strange group of kids.
Mazards! how the diction of our orator is enriched from the vocabulary of Shakspeare! the word head, instead of being changed for a more general term, is here brought distinctly to the eye by the term mazard, or face, which is more appropriate to his majesty's profile than the word skull or head. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
Ever a non-conformist to the point of being termed an iconoclast in thought and approach, he was distinctly different and differently distinctive.
On this bill, the governor's was the kind of calculation that makes him so distinctly loathsome a character.
The line between Allen's own personality and his screen characters is distinctly blurred here, a trait of many of his subsequent movies.
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There are three points which distinctly come out in various places in the Gospels as His motives for such unresting sedulousness and continuance of toil. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
I just got a boatload of new possibilities for moving, and I am feeling distinctly hopeful again.
Black reefs scatter over the bay, appear indistinctly as the tide waves leap.
After the expulsion of the master, the Twentieth School fell upon evil days, for the trustees decided that it would be better to try "gurl" teachers, as Hughie contemptuously called them; and this policy prevailed for two or three years, with the result that the big boys left the school, and with their departure the old heroic age passed away, to be succeeded by an age soft, law-abiding, and distinctly commercial. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry
In the case of soldiers on "extra duty," each was to receive one gill a day, and I distinctly recall the demijohn with the gill cup hanging on its neck, and the line of "extra duty men" who came up each morning for their perquisite. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
For whenever a man conceives his own actions, he is affected with pleasure (III. liii.), in proportion as his actions display more perfection, and he conceives them more distinctly-that is (II.xl. note), in proportion as he can distinguish them from others, and regard them as something special. The Ethics
The precious ingredients, ivory, coral, amber and crystal, have a distinctly magical aura - precious medicine for a precious child.
His distinctly German neo-expressionism gave painting new purpose, serving up brutal truths in the wake of the second world war. This week's new exhibitions
His second reaction is to look distinctly underwhelmed by it all.
We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Higher in the Sheinwoodian Slite Group and in the superjacent Homerian Mulde Formation, morphotype C appears which has a distinctly enlarged first denticle succeeding the fang.
And indeed the poor girl, whose pregnancy had swelled and stoutened every part of her, even to her face, and the vertical, squared outlines of her cheeks, did distinctly suggest those virgins, so strong and mannish as to seem matrons rather, in whom the Virtues are personified in the Arena Chapel. Swann's Way
Some years back there was a lot of Soissons grown, this is an awned wheat and distinctly different from all other varieties. Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
In the gathering gloom it was difficult to see anything distinctly.
This sample of malachite has a distinctly different appearance.
Conceived as a manmade forest dappled by sunlight, the galleria's laminated timber structure (a material previously prohibited by Ontario's building code) has a distinctly arboreal quality.
For the shift in perspective and mood that we see here distinctly parallels and further develops a similar shift both in the sonnet and in the first few stanzas of the poem's development.
The shell is very long and narrow, falcate, fibrous, and distinctly exhibiting the small septa as they occur in the genus Caprina.
_Pedicularis_, where the venation is clearly laminar, the tubular portion is distinctly calycine. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The forechest is distinctly marked by the prosternum. Undefined
He looked distinctly uncomfortable when the subject was mentioned.
When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
I distinctly recall the quivering of the full glasses of jelly on tapering disks that formed attractive table ornaments. A Backward Glance at Eighty
Even if the shape of animal teeth is unfamiliar, a roughly cuboid or distinctly conical structure with a covering of hard mineral and what could feasibly be roots is likely to be a tooth.
Indeed, at the time I was distinctly underwhelmed by the discovery that the fiery red planet of everyone's vivid imaginings had turned out to be, well, beige.
That is, the archetypes have, when they appear, a distinctly numinous character which can only be described as ‘spiritual,’ if ‘magical’ is too strong a word.
Otherwise, those nine Footsie constituents to give ground had a distinctly defensive flavour as investors maintained something of an appetite for risk. Times, Sunday Times
Supported by its distinctly "paratactic" nature, Hölderlin's poetry here is presented as a type of scripture that expressly foregoes the desire for closure, as evidenced by the carefully open-ended reception of "the strangers 'tongue" (die Sprache der Fremdlinge) that was "heard ... comprehended ... interpreted" (vernommen/verstanden/gedeutet). [ Pfau, Coda & Works Cited'
Thornton knew of various incidents which confirmed his opinion that Walsh made a distinctly negative impression in the hunt for backers.
Towards the suture the elytron is raised so as to form a very prominent keel down the back of elytra; the general surface of the elytra is somewhat pustulose, and there are three slightly elevated, longitudinal lines, nearly meeting (but indistinctly) behind on the convex part of each elytron. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Sarraute did in fact state over and over again that her chief preoccupation in writing was to reveal to the reader a previously hidden reality, using the imperfect and distinctly unreal, or at least nonmaterial, tool that is language.
No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and Ulysses
About two hours before daybreak you will hear the red monkey moaning as though in deep distress; the houtou, a solitary bird, and only found in the thickest recesses of the forest, distinctly articulates "houtou, houtou," in a low and plaintive tone an hour before sunrise; the maam whistles about the same hour; the hannaquoi, pataca and maroudi announce his near approach to the eastern horizon, and the parrots and paroquets confirm his arrival there. Wanderings in South America
The clypeus, however, is merged with the epicranium, and the usual suture between them does not appear distinctly in after life, though its place is seen in figure 167 to be indicated by a slight indentation. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
Before crossing the 50th meridian, the undulations arising from the distribution of land and water in the neighbourhood of these vast inland seas would receive considerable elucidation from the shorter intervals of observation, and after passing the 50th meridian the extent of undulation, as compared with that observed by the more southerly vessels, would be more distinctly marked by the three-hourly series. The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves.
I distinctly remember the overwhelming feeling of abject helplessness which this incident brought about.
Our culture has become distinctly sexualised over the past 20 years, and subjects that were once taboo are now openly discussed.
The ancient walled city is getting a distinctly 21st-century makeover. Times, Sunday Times
For, it would seem that Purl must always be taken early; though whether for any more distinctly stomachic reason than that, as the early bird catches the worm, so the early purl catches the customer, cannot here be resolved. Our Mutual Friend
While I realized I hold distinctly different views on the world from most of the people there I would also have to say that I am aghast that they'd use the word "slut" or that they would wonder why there is such a strong reaction to the term cunt or slut. Bread n Roses poster: Bev Oda is a slut
Those fighting for the term republic have a distinctly different view of the role of government than those fighting for democracy. The Volokh Conspiracy » Whole Lot of Error Going On
Blood and gore has lined every street, and in every corner the echoes of a million screams can be distinctly heard.
But then the full moon rose in cloudless serenity, and at length we heard, faintly, then more distinctly, and then in all its deep and sonorous harmony, the tolling of the cathedral bell, which announced our vicinity to a great city. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
She found his manner towards her distinctly hostile.
It is easy to forget that, on so-called litmus-test issues, McCain has remained a safe Republican vote distinctly in tune with the hard right of his own party and constituents. Nothing Left to Fear
By the time I reached the furthest peak I was feeling distinctly sick.
The old furniture and decoration had a distinctly 1970s feel, so it will provide a much better environment for the services we provide.
And, as it happens, my verdict on the material collected here is distinctly mixed; but I do not think it a verdict dictated solely by personal predilections.
With a glass, the rebel soldiers... could be distinctly seen.
However, he has galloped through the past 18 months at a distinctly unacademic pace. Times, Sunday Times
The houses are distinctly suburban. Times, Sunday Times
Other tracks distinctly lack progression; a drum loop plods along with murky synth bass lines only to cut off suddenly, or meander without significant development or resolution.
The landau, though roomy and comfortable, was, like Una's lion, a "most unhasty beast," and we rolled quite slowly and deliberately over a distinctly uninteresting plain for about twenty miles, until we came to A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Turns out, polar bear teeth are not “hardly different” – their back teeth are distinctly more carnassial (for ripping meat, not grinding) than those of their ursid (bear family) cousins. More On Ham's Creation Museum, Tyrannosaur Teeth And The Scientific Process
I distinctly remember assembling on a tray some orange-topped mushrooms, a rusty bed-spring, and some blackened pieces of toast.
You knew you had achieved the ultimate look when your flares completely covered your feet, giving the distinctly eerie impression you were floating down the street.
Most distinctly of all I see his breastpin, with a large bluish-white pearl in it. The Lady from the Sea
Certainly, the one active form of politics that Cooper champions has a distinctly pre-modern ring to it.
She is distinctly unimpressed - and quite rightly so. The Sun
The sagaman consults poetical justice very well at first, and prepares us for an unfortunate end by depicting Grettir as, though valiant and in a way not ungenerous, yet not merely an incorrigible scapegrace, but somewhat unamiable and even distinctly ferocious. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
And colored photographs should never be exposed to sunlight or fluorescent lighting unless framed under UV glass, or you'll be left with a distinctly "blued" image. Apartment Therapy Main
Similarly, the holiness codes of Leviticus thread down from an all-encompassing mandate to behave distinctly from their foreign (and depraved) neighbors.
The most common are vacuum and continuum; the less common ones are menstruum, residuum, triduum, and the distinctly rare duumvir and duumvirate.
No other behavioral science is as distinctly linked with the 20th century as psychology; no other branch of psychology is as basic to clinical and popular understanding as psychoanalysis; and no other figure looms as large in psychoanalysis (or much else) as Sigmund Freud. Cover to Cover
The town of Enniscrone has taken on a distinctly new visage in the garments of tall and beautiful, well formed Christmas trees along the main thoroughfares.
Shell compressed triangular; whorls eight, the first nuclear, the next three cancellate and showing little or no trace of varices, which show themselves on the next (fifth) distinctly for the first time, suture deep, caused by the great convexity of the whorls. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
The agency was left with a distinctly more modest role of policy co-ordination and monitoring. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
Viewed from afar, the works seem strikingly cold and mannered, even when evoking the distinctly human creases of flesh.
A stone's throw from the traffic and diversity of nearby Arusha, Tanzania, a village community -- what we might call neighborhood -- is preserved in the distinctly non-urban, tribal traditions which overlay the foundational stratigraphy of East Africa. Charles R. Wolfe: Envisioning the Blend: Tradition, Tourism and Sustainability
I must have told the boys stories out of my Goldsmith's Greece and Rome, or it would not have been known that I had read them, but I have no recollection now of doing so, while I distinctly remember rehearsing the allegories and fables of the 'Gesta Romanorum', a book which seems to have been in my hands about the same time or a little later. Literature and Life (Complete)
When they awoke their stinking hangovers were not helped by being hauled up in front of a distinctly unimpressed female judge.
The model of academic performativity which emerges is one which is premised on a distinctly masculinised form of labour, situated in a distinctly masculinised culture.
The term employee also includes an officer of a corporation.www. law.cornell.edu (a) When used in this title, where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof - (1) Person The term person shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. WN.com - Financial News
He could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.
They share a distinctly high 93% cognation rate with each other, and in turn share a cognation range of 73.5% – 89.5% with the rest of the East Ruvu group. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
(He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) War and Peace
Despite only having about four people in it, the cast is distinctly multi-national, with a pom, a seppo, and an Australian playing key parts.
Among the dividends provided by the Public Choice Center, solitude to plow one's own furrow was distinctly absent.
It was some kind of combination of instant messaging, phone phreaking, and Wi-Fi with a distinctly modern flavor to it.
While distinctly fleshy now, sporting all the trappings of wealth and success, he still pushes life to its limit.
To avoid a same predestine next fall, Democrats need to support a national debate in distinctly populist terms. Robert Creamer: Four Lessons for Democrats in Tuesday's Elections
Chinese ginger tends to be mainly pungent; South Indian and Australian gingers have a notable quantity of citral and so a more distinctly lemony aroma; Jamaican ginger is delicate and sweet, African ginger penetrating. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The various modern systems of spinal manipulation, namely, osteopathy, chiropractic, naprapathy, neuropathy, spondylotherapy and our own neurotherapy, are all of distinctly American origin. Nature Cure
Both of these genera are heterosporous, meaning that each species produces two distinctly different types of spores: microspores and megaspores.
In the intermission of the premiere, the guests looked distinctly sheepish.
In no single one of them does the expression signify the community or the congregation taken in a distinctly democratic sense, by which emphasis would be laid on the self-government of the faithful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
A single nun, working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.
The favorite cinnamons - which did tend towards the expensive - had complex flavors that came through distinctly even in baked goods. CI taste tests ground cinnamon | Baking Bites
I distinctly remember (although I cannot remember precisely when) suddenly realizing that "Joppa" (which I remembered from the movie Clash of the Titans) was "Jaffa" in the coastal region of modern Israel. Archive 2008-02-01
The choir was distinctly out of tune in places.
Unamplified orchestral sound resonates distinctly around the hall, though far from brilliantly.
And there was Polly, the child, seated in the room, and looking about nine or ten years old: and I was distinctly conscious of the fact, yet without any feeling of surprise at its incongruity, that I was going to take the _child_ Polly with me to the theatre, to see the _grown-up_ Polly act! The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom "ben the house," and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
In the gathering gloom it was difficult to see anything distinctly.
So much sybaritic luxury was considered by the neighboring estate owners to be distinctly nouveau riche.
One country I have increasingly championed is Portugal, which is emerging from a past dominated by the production of port to produce a swathe of wines from opulent reds in the Douro valley, to dry whites with a distinctive mineral core even further north in the Minho, to wines with a distinctly Portuguese character in the southern province of Alentejo. Trawling for Bargains
I thanked her gratefully, and was glad to reflect that I was not yet in need of an attention which I distinctly remember having shown to her in the days of her dollhood. The Brownies and Other Tales
So Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) exposes cheating in sumo wrestling; Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) looks at the 1990s 'drop in the crime rate; Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) discovers whether you can bribe ninth-graders to get good grades - and Morgan Spurlock (Super-Size Me) examines whether your name is your destiny (particularly if you're an African-American with a distinctly African-American name). Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics
Others made similar protests and the meeting concluded on a distinctly unfriendly note. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
She's also distinctly unimpressed with the glamorous side of fame. The Sun
Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Indeed I now find myself troubled by the distinctly nonhistorical stance of much of evangelicalism, and therefore drawn to the arguments of the editors about their two great confessional faiths.
I don't really mind this, and rather like the distinctly metallic looking finish and dark, dark blue colouring.
This is distinctly an infringement of the rights of the fisherfolk of Fitu-Iva. THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
(We also distinctly remembered Reality Bites as set in Seattle and prominently featuring the pulchritudinous Badmotorfinger - era Chris Cornell, until we realized we were confusing it with Singles, which makes us feel as though dementia may be setting in early, but that is neither here nor there). Archive 2009-10-01
Viewing the pilot episode Newman and Wilson were distinctly unhappy.
Trophon sowerbyi shares the strongly lamellose shell of T. plicatus but its lamellae are much lower and the shell has a distinctly subquadrate outline.
Vales.p. 721, and Cassiodorus, in Chron.) may be distinctly traced under the following heads: iron mine, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The keeper looked to be distinctly unimpressed with his defenders. The Sun
I feel that the culture of librarianship is distinctly different from other information professions such as computer scientists and IT folks. What is a Librarian? Defining a profession
The old estate looked quite ready to swap tarmac for mud; this one has a distinctly more suburban air.
But wire reports of "colossal damage" to Beirut in retaliation for the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Haifa tell a distinctly different story, that is, a spiraling conflict that is fast turning the capital city of a sovereign nation to rubble. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
The rosette is Egyptian; and the honeysuckle, which Mr. Petrie has identified as a florid variety of the lotus pattern, (44) is also distinctly Egyptian. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
There is something non-Western, indeed something distinctly East Asian about these cityscapes which is hard to put your finger on. AsiaWorld
The auricles in early ontogeny are relatively large and distinctly trigonal, with their free margins meeting the hinge line at acute angles.
Her father was distinctly irascible, and disposed more than ever to hide away among the petrological things -- the study was turned out. Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
These manly salons also allow men to indulge in treatments once taboo, such as manicures and facials -- but all with a distinctly male tenor. A Beer and a Game of Pool
He speaks so indistinctly that many listeners haven't a clue what he is saying.
About a third of the paintings in the collection are student donations or Ruskin cast-offs and have a distinctly youthful and accessible appeal that helps many of them to find a home each year.
I distinctly remember Jane saying that the show started at eight.
He has jettisoned hyperrealism in favor of a distinctly blurred image.
You can see very distinctly on the satellite picture the eye of the hurricane right there as it continues to move very close now to the coast.
Typhoid fever, also due to a bacillus, which enters the body chiefly in impure water but sometimes in milk or other foods, is distinctly a preventable disease. Some of the Triumphs of Modern Medicine
Dermoid cysts of the ovary may consist only of a wall of connective tissue lined with epidermis and containing distinctly epidermic scales which, however, may be rolled up in firm masses of a more or less soapy consistency; this variety is called by Orth epidermoid cyst; or, according to Warren, a form of cyst made up of skin containing small and ill-defined papillæ, but rich in hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
They are distinctly flattened and rectangular to trapezoidal in dorsal view.
Men like to keep their bathrooms distinctly spartan, that is until a girlfriend arrives and inevitably stakes her claim. 15 Annoying Things Most Girlfriends Do (That You Have to Put Up With) | Manolith
The modern treasure hunt is a distinctly unglamorous affair. Times, Sunday Times

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