Sentence examples for can only discern from inspiring English sources

At this remove, we can only discern the faint outlines of that approach.

The ZnS Mn can discern an energy difference of about 0.4 J while EuD4TEA can only discern about 0.6 J.

However, because Opportunity's X-ray spectrometer can only discern the atomic elements in a rock, and not their mineralogical arrangement, no-one can say for sure.

The Rev Dr Sam Foley, writing in 1694, described the rocks: "We found none square, but almost all pentagonal, or hexagonal; only a few had seven sides; and many more pentagons than hexagons; but they are all irregular… They always lie as close as possible for one stone to lie on another, so that on the outside of the pillars you can only discern the crack that joins the two stones".

One common analogy for considering the impact of nonspecific binding is as follows: although the stars (specific binding) are always in the sky, we can only discern them at night because daylight (nonspecific binding) overwhelms their signal.

We shared so much that you can only really discern with hindsight.

I can just discern the seam between earth and sky.

What they are doing is passing bulk data through computer programs, looking either for specific key words or for patterns of correlation that can only be discerned by analysing large volumes of data.

Data scientists would then merely have to examine and classify the results – anomalies, events and issues that can only be discerned by human eyes.

This reflects molecular-level heterogeneity among psoriasis lesions, which can only be discerned by studying a sufficiently large patient cohort [22,29].

In modern West Greenlandic the difference between the two original vowels can only be discerned morphophonologically in certain environments.