Sentences with discern
dis·cern
D d - You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend. [VERB noun]
- Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch. [VERB noun]
- The better they'll be able to discern what is useful.
- The more honest of us will even discern exactly what role we would have played.
- Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.
- If they discern any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they discern no such thing, they will consider me altogether mistaken.
- Justice Coldrey said he could not discern any significant level of remorse by Gojanovic.
- Parents should talk to children about how to discern reliable information from internet junk, says Professor Mary Kalantzis.
- The severity of judgement, they say, makes men censorious and unapt to pardon the errors and infirmities of other men: and on the other side, celerity of fancy makes the thoughts less steady than is necessary to discern exactly between right and wrong.
- They discerned a sail on the horizon.
- There I nudged into a position from where it took several seconds to discern which player on the distant green was Woods.
- It was easy to discern that age and perhaps self-abuse have not been kind to Houston's voice.
- He is incapable of discerning right from wrong.
- Discern implies a making out or recognizing of something visually or mentally [to discern one's motives]; perceive implies recognition by means of any of the senses, and, with reference to mental apprehension, often implies keen understanding or insight [to perceive a change in attitude]; distinguish, in this connection, implies a perceiving clearly or distinctly by sight, hearing, etc. [he distinguished the voices of men down the hall]; observe, notice both connote some measure of attentiveness and usually suggest use of the sense of sight [to observe an eclipse, to notice a sign]