Example Sentences

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I had known that the definitiveness of my announcement would make my parents listen.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

Antosca pointed out that the Baptist document has a deeply humanist perspective, emphasizing the distinctness of human life and the definitiveness of death.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2019

In an epilogue, Müller intimates a link between enriched e-texts and pre-Gutenberg culture: A “printed book has a high affinity with the pole of definitiveness, while the handwritten manuscript has a high affinity with optionality.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015

Here’s what I was told, with some definitiveness, is on Apple’s mind in terms of M&A: Think the “human interface,” said the banker.

From Forbes • Apr. 25, 2013

As if to add the touch of definitiveness to the presumptive conclusion, a voice broke in upon his revery; the voice of the young woman whose most alluring charm was her many-sided changefulness.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis