Sentence examples for discern words from inspiring English sources

Then as the conversation would wear on it would become increasingly muffled and difficult to discern words.

To make sense of this complex auditory information, humans use rhythmic cues such as stress and pause to discern words and syllables.

"It is hard to hear in a bar or restaurant, hard to discern certain words, and I have to turn up the TV," he told me.

To go by his ebullience (no amp-ravaged listener more than a pace away could hope to discern actual words), Richards seemed to know some of the guests and to be treating those whom he did not know as though he might have met them before.

Singer Lyubov, when she's not chirruping in tongues à la Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins (although apparently, if you can discern the words through the miasma of reverb and guitar dazzle, she sings in English, not Russian, because our language is "more melodious" – tell that to Sleaford Mods), is a student of the Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson school of diaphanous coo.

What mattered was that I could hear their voices, the sound of their voices, but I could not discern the words themselves.

It's in the melodic cadence of their language -- high-high-low -- that, when you can't quite discern the words, sounds like a European language.

Ironically, it's hard to discern a word these exceptionally wordy writers are singing.

(Her mother tells fellow Thanksgiving guests that she has gone through what her daughter has, and "it's not that bad," prompting Gubar to discern the word "mother" inside "chemotherapy").

Reading between the lines of the government's plan to yank toxic mortgages off bank balance sheets, investors seem to have discerned two words that don't get much respect anymore: private equity.

When he talks, sometimes the only word you can discern is the word "No!" because his speech is garbled.