Example Sentences

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Many Southern California high school football programs have distinguished roll calls when it comes to alumni who have made it to the NFL, but one of those schools achieved something remarkable Thursday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

Neuroscientists have distinguished brain regions and systems by function for more than a century.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

Apple’s buybacks have distinguished it from many of its tech peers who’ve struggled with profitability.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2023

Whoever was imitating the 17th-century Dutch artist had botched his process, leaving the image with a coarse finish unlike the smooth surfaces that have distinguished Vermeer as one of history’s finest painters.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2022

For example, they might have distinguished a count of sheep from one of wheat by drawing a sheep on one and a wheat stalk on the other.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann