Example sentences for: discern

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

  • It will be next to impossible to discern which company's shoes are being pushed.

  • In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."

  • You will soon be able to discern this after visiting a few stores and closely examining the products.

  • Second, because biological phenomena are generated by large, complex networks of elements, there is little reason to expect to discern fundamental laws in them.

  • Only Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) and William Safire (NBC's Meet the Press ) discern a distinct pattern of play-for-pay.


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