Sentence examples for distinct thing from inspiring English sources

A declaration of war is a distinct thing.

It goes some way towards eroding the notion that there is any such distinct thing as "black" or "white" or that people of mixed racial heritage have a particular caramel coloured skin tone and can readily be identified as mixed.

Anyone who knows him, or has spent the tiniest modicum of time in his company, knows Matthew McConaughey has a distinct "thing" for the open road, the call of the wild.

The case, Davidson says, has ramifications beyond abortion clinics: "It's funny how when we have cases that involve reproductive rights in one way or the other, there's a tendency to see it as only about that and to forget how it could be applied to other places, because it's such a distinct thing in American culture".

It's quite possible that starlight also plays a part in the woods' weird monochromatic brilliance, which has a powerfully camouflaging effect, in that every usually distinct thing — each plant and rock and patch of open ground — appears in a common uniform of sheen and shadow.

No distinct thing or kind of thing is deemed 'the world'.

Rather, we can say that while European metaphysics has tended to center on problems of reconciliation (how ontologically distinct things can interact), Chinese metaphysics has been more concerned with problems of distinction.

The code about accuracy and the law of defamation are two very distinct things.

Apple, however, seems to reckon mobile advertising and online advertising are two distinct things.

To ravish, confusingly, can mean one of two distinct things: to seize someone and carry them off, or to enrapture.

The paper maintained that it was vital to see the referendum and the internal Tory battle as "distinct things".