Example sentences for: distinctions

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

  • At a time when dumb one-liners and tasteless jokes can be tossed off on TV and elsewhere as examples of wit without causing anyone to cringe, perhaps the moment has arrived to make some distinctions and straighten out the nomenclature among those terms that fall under the umbrella of eliciting laughter.

  • But where do these distinctions come from?

  • What a load of phony differences without distinctions!

  • While such distinctions have no effect on our understanding of the written word which has punctuation to help it, in speech they are useful pointers to syntax and meaning—or could be, if only speakers would make phrases like the following distinguishable:

  • These distinctions were very reproducible in the following studies.


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