Sentence examples for distinct senses from inspiring English sources

The distinct senses accordingly make different contributions to the thoughts expressed by the two sentences.

In a related effect the Internet has brought plagiarism into the computer era in two distinct senses.

And Snowden is self-aware enough to talk, in the interview, about his own privilege, in two distinct senses of the word.

Plants have evolved between fifteen and twenty distinct senses, including analogues of our five: smell and taste (they sense and respond to chemicals in the air or on their bodies); sight (they react differently to various wavelengths of light as well as to shadow); touch (a vine or a root "knows" when it encounters a solid object); and, it has been discovered, sound.

The older editions at least settled questions that might legitimately come up in the course of writing and research -- the world's most prolific painter, it could have told you, was neither Picasso nor Dali but Antoine Wiertz, and the most versatile word in English is "jack," with some 52 distinct senses.

"Parenthood" has distinct senses: biological, social, legal, and moral.

One gets the distinct sense that he relishes the role.

But the clothes never evoked a distinct sense of place.

"He had a distinct sense of responsibility to other people.

The image conveys a distinct sense of hilarity.

Even so there was a distinct sense of what might have been.