Example Sentences

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“There is a national consensus that the north east requires a special focus but not to the determent of other issues,” reported Chris Stein for Al Jazeera.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2015

"In the atomic age the threat of retaliation is probably the strongest single means of determent."

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, such a mother is tired, nervous, irritated and ill-tempered; a determent, often, instead of a help to her children.

From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret

Fortifications were built and in the north walls of solid masonry were thrown across the country from the Oceanus Ibernicus to the Oceanus Germanicus, for the determent of common foes.

From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West