Example sentences for: definite

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

  • Our quoted compliment employs the implicit tokenism of the definite article--"the woman"--the condescension of "girl," the dubious virtue of "talented," suggesting that her abilities were something she was born with, not something she earned.

  • My supposition of the moment--now that I find myself under Bashmet's sway (a definite indication of charismatic force, by the way)--is that charisma in music, the real thing and not the fake, is a more-than-musical quality.

  • He called the Manhattan Institute, one of the more influential conservative think tanks, simply "Manhattan Institute," without the definite article, a minor-seeming mistake that suggests he doesn't fully grasp what he's saying.

  • Stoat flirted briefly with a form of writing that used only the definite and indefinite articles, but soon became disenchanted with such lifeless passages as:

  • [A definite citation, of course, can be used to verify a fact.


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