DISCERNING in a Sentence

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120 example sentences for DISCERNING, such as:

1. She is a very discerning art critic.
2. I could just discern a figure in the darkness.
3. The man couldn't discern between right and wrong.
4. It is difficult to discern any pattern in these figures.
5. Some people find it difficult to discern blue from green.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCERNING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discerning
 a.  exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; quick to understand
Classic Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
1  She had hoped that, to a man like her uncle, so discerning, so honourable, so good, the simple acknowledgment of settled dislike on her side would have been sufficient.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  If it be so, I am sure you must be included in that part, that discerning part, and therefore entreat you to let me know how far I have been rightly informed.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  His tone, his expressions, his choice of subject, his knowing where to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible, discerning mind.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
4  Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
5  To Gerty Farish, keeping watch over her with a tenderer if less discerning eye than Mrs. Fisher's, the results of the struggle were already distinctly visible.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
6  You are so discerning, Prince, and understand people's characters so well at a glance.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXI
7  The hatred and contempt of the crowd punish such men for discerning the higher laws.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
8  Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44
9  Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, declined the subject, alleging, in excuse, his total ignorance; and the conversation took a more general turn.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  For this the people thought a base course, not discerning the advantage resulting from it, which Fabius could by no argument make plain to them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIII.
11  Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days could produce any.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  But the magistrate was half blind and half childish, so he couldn't reasonably be expected to discern what other people did.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  They went by her, and at the moment of passing appeared to discern her dusky form.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
14  On the further side of a table bearing candles she could faintly discern faces, and that was all.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
15  Looking from one of them he could discern a pale, tragic face watching him drive away.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  She is a very discerning art critic.
2  He said the carrier is ready for the transition and views it as an opportunity to attract discerning subscribers.
3  The discerning customer will recognize this as a high quality product.
4  You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend.
5  Anger rusts intellect so that it cannot discern right from wrong.
6  The man couldn't discern between right and wrong.
7  Some people find it difficult to discern blue from green.
8  In the gloom I could only just discern the outline of a building.
9  It is often difficult to discern the truth of an event from a newspaper report.
10  I could just discern a figure in the darkness.
11  Officials were keen to discern how much public support there was.
12  It is often difficult to discern how widespread public support is.
13  It is difficult to discern any pattern in these figures.
14  I discern in the course of the morning that Thornfield Hall was a changed place.
15  Many things happen in the earth and sky with no discernible cause.