Example sentences for: discern

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

  • The exterior is rather unprepossessing — a sooty Baroque church, hemmed into an undignified position by the Elizabeth Bridge — but look inside and you can discern much earlier elements in the handsome interior.

  • Some discern a feminist slant to the film's "ballsy depiction of man's inhumanity to woman, and man" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin praises its "critical detachment" and "coolly stylized exaggeration," which make it "impossible to mistake In the Company of Men for simple bigotry."

  • The differences are hard to discern, but no matter, for the book is a user-friendly excursion through the history of the language, with many good examples of loanwords, derivations, and other linguistic incunabula, curiosa, and paraphernalia interestingly presented in a lively fashion by a good writer.

  • The introduction of robust machine-vision techniques that can consistently discern the histomorphology of tissues in a comprehensive fashion will support pathologic assessments allowing a more quantitative evaluation of phenotypic responses to compounds.

  • Even though structure prediction methods need further development, it is possible to produce models where functional hypotheses can be tested in a rational manner (for example, with mutagenesis experiments) through detailed analysis [ 54 ] . Additionally, structure comparisons can be used to detect functional relationships that cannot be detected by sequence information alone [ 52 ] , and micro-environment analyses that parse models for particular three-dimensional motifs [ 55 ] can be used to discern molecular function.


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