distinct

In a sentence

Six example sentences with distinct, each labelled with its topic.

• Aged gouda carries a distinct crunch of salt crystals that the young wheel beside it never develops.

  Cooking

• The two panels look identical from the doorway, yet the underpainting is distinct enough to prove different hands.

  Art

• The two frog populations proved genetically distinct, despite living on opposite banks of a river a child can wade.

  Science

• The court treated the two claims as distinct, so winning the first said nothing about the second.

  Law

• Her two jump shots are distinct: one flat and quick from the corner, the other a high arc off the dribble.

  Basketball

• Descartes argued that mind and body are distinct substances, since one can be doubted while the other cannot.

  Philosophy

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More Academic words

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