Example Sentences

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Wondrous, overspilling yet always recognizably human, this novel is remarkable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Over the centuries, gravy shed its sweeter, almond-thickened medieval robes and settled into something recognizably savory, though still wonderfully elastic.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

This leads us to two types of counterexamples: Can more-progressive beliefs about sex and gender be recognizably religious?

From Slate • Jul. 9, 2025

Where the monsters of “Monsters” are all recognizably human, “Grotesquerie” suggests something more cosmic at work, like a darkness summoned in a story by horror master H.P.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

I was still recognizably kin to the boy I had been.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez