English example sentences with "distinguish"

Learn how to use distinguish in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

You should distinguish between right and wrong.

It is hard to distinguish you from your brother.

Can you distinguish silver from tin?

The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.

No matter how we try, it is impossible to distinguish good people from bad people by outward appearances.

We cannot distinguish her from her younger sister.

We need to distinguish right from wrong.

The driver could not distinguish the signal in the fog.

You must educate your tongue to distinguish good coffee from bad.

The twins look so much alike it's next to impossible to distinguish one from the other.

The twins are so much alike that I can not distinguish one from the other.

The two brothers resemble each other so much that I can hardly distinguish one from the other.

Could you teach me how people distinguish between these words in common usage?

I can't distinguish a frog from a toad.

The dog cannot distinguish between colors.

Reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.

You get to see the wood only when it becomes too difficult to distinguish individual trees.

These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.

We should distinguish a good book from a bad one.

You have to distinguish fact from fiction.

Sometimes reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.

It is hard to distinguish truth from a lie.

What are the marks that distinguish the cultured man?

It is not always easy to distinguish good from evil.

It is not easy to distinguish good from evil.

To distinguish right from wrong is difficult.

Animals cannot distinguish right from wrong.

The time will soon come when Japan will distinguish herself in winter sports.

It is not always easy to distinguish the Japanese from the Chinese.

I can't distinguish him from his brother.

He was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.

He can not distinguish between right and wrong.

He can't distinguish vice from virtue.

Can a child of her age distinguish good from bad?

Can you distinguish her from her sister?

She cannot distinguish right from wrong.

It is easy to distinguish good from evil.

I think to clearly distinguish opinion from fact is important.

The problem quoted isn't one, but there are problems in the reading section that ask you to distinguish relative pronouns from relative adverbs.

It seems that it's impossible to distinguish an obsessional neurosis from an intense love from a biochemical perspective.

I wonder how I can distinguish a coldly smiling smiley from an honestly smiling one.

Dogs can't distinguish between colors.

I cannot distinguish a frog from a toad.

Children below the age of 8 have an underdeveloped frontal lobe that might cause them to be unable to separate reality from fantasy. Some of them might believe that there are monsters in their closet or under the bed, for example. They are also sometimes unable to distinguish dreams from reality.

A litany of taste tests enabled Hugo to distinguish between a variety of pastes.

Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.

He can't distinguish between left and right.

We cannot distinguish her and her younger sister.

It's hard to distinguish an aebleskiver pan from a takoyaki pan.

We need to distinguish what a sentence could mean from what it actually does mean when used by one particular speaker on one particular occasion.

They sound so similar it's not easy to distinguish them.

Only with wisdom can one distinguish between good and evil; only with humility can one build a happy life.

It's easy to distinguish good from evil.

I can't distinguish the taste.

Poe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between parodies of religious or other fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane.

You won't really be able to hear the difference between sounds that you can't distinguish by pronouncing, so even if you don't feel like communicating, pronunciation is important. Pronunciation can also be a hint for remembering how a word is spelled.

Investors must distinguish between genuine value creation and wishful thinking.

Tom's capacity to distinguish imagined from real was gone.

Animals can't distinguish between true and false.

Esperanto is already a good language for the mere fact that it can distinguish between Man as an individual of humankind, and Man as the male of the species.

My eyes weren't keen enough to distinguish whether the black spot on the ceiling was a spider or a fly.

Can you distinguish between Americans and Canadians?

One does not need to be an ornithologist to be able to distinguish blackbirds from crows or even jackdaws.

Dogs can't distinguish colors.

Tom is not able to easily distinguish between boredom and hunger.

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.

Tom cannot distinguish between reality and imagination.

They are easy to distinguish from each other.

Animals cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood.

It is important to distinguish between assessing the quality of a trial and the quality of its report.

One must distinguish.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

You like to distinguish work from play.

He can't distinguish between good and evil.

I can't distinguish between them.

Philosophers distinguish between a priori and a posteriori knowledge.

It's strange that other languages don't really distinguish plants which we ourselves consider totally different.

I know how to distinguish the good from the bad.

It is impossible to distinguish one from the other.

He doesn't know how to distinguish right from wrong.

At the age of 12 months the child learns to distinguish ordinary surroundings from foreign surroundings.

Communists generally distinguish between personal property, such as toothbrushes or personal living space, and private property, such as vast swaths of land where buildings are rented out to workers so that the unproductive class can profit off their need for personal living space.

I have made a special study of cigar ashes—in fact, I have written a monograph upon the subject. I flatter myself that I can distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand either of cigar or of tobacco.

It is not difficult to distinguish camels from dromedaries, for while the dromedary has only one hump, the camel has two.

Tom isn't able to easily distinguish between boredom and hunger.

The twins are so much alike that I can't distinguish one from the other.

Animals can't distinguish right from wrong.

We do not distinguish the true from the false.

The original acid test used hydrochloric and nitric acid to distinguish gold from base metals.

It isn't easy to distinguish good from evil.

It's not easy to distinguish good from evil.

It isn't always easy to distinguish good from evil.

It's not always easy to distinguish good from evil.

Can you distinguish barley from wheat?

It's not always easy to distinguish an adjective from an adverb.

Maria lost the ability to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Typically, there are many “perfect” translations of a given source sentence. These translations may vary in word choice or in word order even when they use the same words. And yet humans can clearly distinguish a good translation from a bad one.

Spyware can't distinguish between threatening letters and love letters.

It's hard to distinguish you from your brother.

Children can no longer distinguish hens from cows.

Some people are colour-blind: they are unable to distinguish between certain colours.

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