Sentence examples for discern age from inspiring English sources

For young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 -- a bracket in which it becomes more difficult to discern age by appearance -- the numbers increase exponentially to 296.

I'm grateful to Russell Platt, the classical-music editor here at Goings On About Town (and a terrific composer—I highly recommend the recent recording of his "Autumn Music" for violin and piano), for bringing to my attention an unsuspected intersection of what, in a less-discerning age, would have been deemed high and low culture, respectively (but not respectfully).

Then they reached a more discerning age when they could speak their mind (and it got younger and younger with each successive kid).

She was wearing a sleek blue cocktail dress, but she said she had a method for discerning age-appropriate clothing: "I always make sure it's grandma-appropriate.

To discern the age of these moraines, we collect rock samples from large moraine boulders and apply a relatively new isotopic method called beryllium-10 surface-exposure dating.

His skills include a working knowledge of computer forensics, an ability to discern the ages of child victims by looking at pictures and a lot of patience.

A dentist apparently "rumbled" the boy, whose name is Jamal, by discerning his age via his teeth.

You and your husband can put on happy faces for a while, but kids are perceptive, and their awareness will grow more discerning with age.

In MSC preparations used in this study we did not discern any age-associated effects on replicative senescence.

Of course, there are great works of literature such as Othello that might serve to introduce students to that, but the emphasis in the common readings is on indicting contemporary society, not on discerning an age-old affliction.

Eve is a connoisseur as well, an aesthete who can discern the exact age of an object by touching it.