Example sentences for: defining

How can you use “defining” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although virus recovered at passage 4 from one of five mice treated with VCV (14-P4) was clearly resistant in the PRA (IC 50 s 8.3 and 9.5 for PCV and ACV, respectively), the preceding and the subsequent isolates were sensitive according to the criteria for defining resistance.

  • Reviewing dictionaries of this kind--those similar in content and purpose to what are called “college” or “desk” dictionaries in the US--is probably quite useless in providing guidance to potential purchasers: there is always the temptation to carp at omissions, cavil at what are seen as infelicities in defining and other information, and argue one's case against the theories that are reflected in the organization of the text.

  • The negative stereotypes defining labor in the mainstream press are easily invoked, but rarely is the positive rationale behind organization defined beyond "worker dissatisfaction."

  • Those show's defining feature, however, is its overabundance of male bonding: A single episode offers multiple sessions of father-son bonding, brother-brother bonding, cop-cop bonding, and so on.

  • Wrangham and Conklin-Brittain (2003) support the view that prepared cuisines based on cooked foods are one of the defining characteristics of humans.


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