Sentence examples for mark rather than from inspiring English sources

I've indicated it with a drawn mark, rather than sculpted.

This is where Metro is determined to make its mark, rather than competing on price.

But they added up to an existential question mark rather than a rationale for why he should be president.

This game was atypical of Australia's tournament because Clarke himself was the bold exclamation mark rather than the lingering ellipsis.

In such examples, however, it is the intonation (represented in writing by the question mark) rather than the word order alone that marks the question.

His advisers had anticipated that they would be running against Howard Dean, an opponent whom they said they saw as an easy mark, rather than Mr. Kerry.

Since Robbins wanted understatement — the sense of dances being marked rather than delivered full out — this manner has nothing wrong with it.

Worse, the company predicted that earnings this year before interest and taxes would be a mere 50 million marks rather than the 525 million marks that Florian Haffa had predicted in late October.

As a teacher, I once taught a 14-year-old how to read a ruler by observing what she was doing (counting the hatch marks rather than the spaces made by them).

Perhaps he had not heard that none of the country's 25,000 university applicants passed this year's entrance exams after administrators switched to a fair admissions system based on real marks rather than bribes and family connections.

Perhaps because much of Mr. Keigwin's work seems slightly arch, as if he were placing it between quotation marks rather than trusting it to inhabit a larger world.