Sentence examples for and try to discern from inspiring English sources
"A good mediator will listen to both sides of the story and try to discern common threads among the arguments," he said.
Bagehot spent time at Paddington last month with a more modest goal, to look at one successful school and try to discern what makes it different.
Together, trading the writing in tag-team fashion, they assess the key departments of twentysomething life — school, careers, dating, family-making, and so forth — and try to discern how much has actually changed.
Carel Pedre, Radio presenter, via twitter Today we are beginning to prepare for mobile medical clinics and try to discern a safe and smart way to begin to do this in our area.
We can also look at countries whose financial institutions and policies seemed very different from those in the United States, yet which cracked up just as badly, and try to discern common causes.
"Anyone who wants to know anything about me as an artist — and this is the only thing that matters," Klimt famously told a journalist, "should look attentively at my pictures and try to discern from them who I am and what I want".
I've been studying the honking patterns of taxi-drivers from the back seat and trying to discern patterns.
"Does anyone?" My fellow birders and I tilted our necks skyward, held our binoculars at the ready and tried to discern the slightest movement in the branches above.
The narrator, whose name we never learn, is painfully self-aware, given to obsessively questioning his own motives and trying to discern Clara's to an extent that often leaves him paralyzed and mute.
There is some interesting academic research into all this — economists looking at dating-site data and trying to discern whether people care less about racial differences, or socioeconomic differences, or political differences, than they do out in the "real" world.
She joined a dig where archeologists were uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement not far from her home and trying to discern what happened there after the Romans left.
