Example sentences for: definitive

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

  • If he declines your overture, you will have definitive information that the Coffee Shop Man holds no possibilities ...

  • There are two extreme interpretations of our analysis of the Net1(7m) and Net1 (19m') mutants: First, Cdc5 is not directly involved in disrupting the RENT complex, and second, Cdc5 directly disassembles the RENT complex via phosphorylation of Net1, but because it is not feasible to evaluate all possible 10 9(=2 30) combinations of phospho-site mutants or because the sites phosphorylated by Cdc5 in vivo are different from those in vitro due to the presence of factors such as Sir2, Pol I, and rDNA [ 10 23 ] , we missed key phosphorylation sites that would have given a more definitive phenotype when mutated.

  • Although the coverage of the YAC and BAC physical maps was nearly complete, only direct sequencing of CFEOM1 patient DNA would yield definitive results about the status of the sarcospan gene in CFEOM1.

  • It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.

  • Though it's hard to sustain a point of view when the goal is to be best-selling and definitive, the book's reigning mood is progressive populism tempered by realistic pessimism.


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