Sentence examples for has a trait from inspiring English sources

In Homer's poetry, every hero has a trait.

But Ms. Whitman has a trait that many chief executives lack: she is not afraid to do an about-face.

Norton has a trait which is unusual (and possibly undesirable) in a novelist: he treats all his characters with kindness, even the baddies.

If Mr. Holmes's performance indicates a trend, the new lounge lizard has a trait not commonly found in the old: sincerity, or at least the appearance of it.

The last response could fit the category of "functional explanations" as well an individual has a trait for the function it serves.

The method of inverse probabilities offers itself as a way of calculating the (conditional) probability that a population has a trait in a certain proportion given that a sample drawn from that population has the trait in that proportion.

Seward, though, had a trait that was rare in Washington: an ability to curb his rancor.

They had a trait in common: extraordinary flexibility in their toes, which may have been double-jointed.

But faans also have a trait that Sugden considers crucial for a perfected toyger: small, rounded ears, very different from a typical domestic cat's pointy triangles.

But sometimes it's bad to have a trait that's too popular.

Pyrethroids also have a trait scientists call excito-repellency: They stimulate mosquitoes to leave the net.