Sentence examples for the defining elements from inspiring English sources

He and contemporaries like Wayne McAllister adapted by building hotels with towers that replaced neon signs as the defining elements.

He couldn't do much to its basic form; the defining elements — dots, lines, color — were by now unalterable.

"It was only natural to find the specific elements, the defining elements, of the last record and to eliminate those and create holes," Mr. Keating said.

The patterns of branching as well as bark color and texture are the defining elements.

Delicious, the social bookmarking site that was largely responsible for making 'tagging' one of the defining elements in today's web, has turned 5.

"The people of 3M have always understood the compelling nature of character and integrity as the defining elements of our reputation," George W. Buckley, 3M's chief executive, told Reputation Institute.

Silk in a Lobster Pot Silk is the defining element in Berenice Pliskin's work.

Of great-power competition as the defining element in statecraft, he writes, "That world no longer exists".

This is a brave approach to a play in which boredom is the defining element through which the characters move.

Working in Motown's Studio A, a converted dirt-floor garage, the Funk Brothers became the defining element in the label's sound.

Candy Crush Saga has its own slant on the conventions of the genre, of course, but really, the defining element is its candy name and theme.