Example sentences for: discriminating

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

  • Modifications of the PSA level have been proposed to improve the discriminating power of the test.

  • But when this story begins in the early 1930s, as Conant becomes president of Harvard and is thinking of ways of selecting able students from the Midwest and elsewhere outside of Harvard's traditional recruiting area, Harvard and similar institutions were still to some degree discriminating against Jewish students.

  • USA Today leads with President Clinton's support of a bill that would bar health insurance companies from discriminating against people because of their genes.

  • Movie theaters have a certain amount of monopoly power (on a given night, a given moviegoer is likely to have a strong preference for a particular movie at a particular theater), and they price discriminate by offering discounts to senior citizens (which is equivalent to discriminating against everybody under the age of 65).

  • Many grumble that the curators weren't more discriminating.


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