Sentence examples for than distinguished from inspiring English sources
Every great player has to win tournaments even when his performance is something less than distinguished.
In the meantime there seem to be some unexpectedly pleasant possibilities for amiable animals whose ancestry has hitherto been regarded as obscure rather than distinguished.
At school I, like Jess, had been reasonably bright and flourished in the arts but was less than distinguished in the academic field.
"There was a good deal of muttering in the wizarding community," Rowling writes, "when Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic, awarded himself an O.M. (First Class) for a career that many considered less than distinguished".
As always, Richards' ragged voice is an instrument that's more serviceable than distinguished -- it's the equivalent of a crude raft that can take the user from one bank of a river to the other, not traverse long distances with tremendous style or panache.
With Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" – which showed his remarkable range and passionate performance style -- he more than distinguished himself, setting himself up to remain in the competition for at least as long as the spell he cast on us would last.
The entire evening seemed intended to diminish the presidential aspirants rather than distinguish their positions.
But Polaroid's camera is designed to mimic a smartphone more than distinguish itself from one.
It baffles me that people who consider themselves intelligent saddle their children with names that, rather than distinguishing a child from the norm, will give other children hours and hours of entertainment on the playground ("A.K.A". Nov. 27).
Today non-discrimination should mean regulators must treat all networks equally, rather than distinguishing between the different sorts of technologies that provide access, be it cable, fibre, wireless, power-line or DSL over copper wires.
Rather than distinguishing the Paralympians as a different breed of athlete, and segregating their activities, why not declare them all Olympians, and simply incorporate Paralympic disciplines into the Olympics?
