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Sentences ending with detect

This fact has not produced any effect upon me that I can detect. [5]

More example sentences with the word detect in them

A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
Maybe that is what you intend the reader to detect and think he has made a Columbus-discovery. [5]
The Lord Protector was quick to notice these things: he was as quick to detect the cause. [5]
It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it. [5]
Master Gridley could usually detect the shifting action, but the young man's features and voice never betrayed him. [6]
There was no trouble in her manner; I could detect no sign of excitement. [11]
They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
Mandeville had gone too far, except in the opinion of Our Next Door, who declared that an imitation was just as good as an original, if you could not detect it. [4]
I will explain to you some day how to detect it. [5]
He was about to take leave but the Mukaukas was so buried in pillows, and kept his eyes so closely shut, that no one could detect whether he were sleeping or waking; so the Arab, not wishing to disturb him, withdrew without speaking. [10]
She compared him to Ditmar, on whose dust-grey face she was quick to detect a look she had seen before--a contraction of the eyes, a tightening of the muscles of the jaw. [9]
We were able to detect him among the crowd of arrivals at the hotel-counter by his correspondence with a description of him which had been furnished us from a trustworthy source. [5]
Presently I began to detect a most evil and searching odor stealing about on the frozen air. [5]
This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope. [5]
Any difference in these organs, if slight, would, however, be difficult to detect, on account of their great variability. [1]
I can detect the truth pretty well when I hear it. [9]
In spite of the superficiality of his own arguments, which I was not learned enough to detect, I was ingloriously routed. [9]
Those who at the same time enrich their knowledge by its study ought not to detect the fact that they are learning. [10]
She sang only the old chansons and the songs of the voyageurs, with a far greater sweetness and richness, however, than any in the parish; and the Cure could detect her among all others at mass. [11]
Well, it is the business of the Law to detect and punish crime. [11]
Now you know that when Providence shapes a mouth especially for the accommodation of a potato you can detect that fact at a glance when that mouth is in repose--foreign travel can never remove that sign. [5]
It is by that sign and by that fact that I detect the resemblance here and know this portrait to be genuine and perfect. [5]
I can not tell to this day what it was that enabled them to detect the coat; but there I stood condemned before them. [11]
I am not surprised that Blake didn't detect it; I am only surprised that Tom did. [5]
And it was so dark that one could detect nothing but somber outlines. [5]
If there is sign of change nowhere else, we detect it in the newspaper. [4]
I am sure she will detect an encouraging ray of intelligence in that last argument..... [5]
He could not read it in the face of his own son, who was so quick to detect it in all others! [9]
It was a rather slender argument, but the farmers did not seem to detect it. [5]
Denisov spoke contemptuously of the whole matter, but Rostov knew him too well not to detect that (while hiding it from others) at heart he feared a court-martial and was worried over the affair, which was evidently taking a bad turn. [2]
As a part of medical treatment, it is the physician's business to detect the hidden longing for the food of the soul, as much as for any form of bodily nourishment. [6]
His smile had no heart in it, but few eyes were near enough or sharp enough to detect that. [5]
He had hitherto never gone to rest at night without requiring of himself an account of the past day, and he had always been able to detect the most subtle line that divided right from wrong in his actions. [10]
You detect no movement in the solid mass of heads and shoulders. [5]
Thus, at one moment we detect the look, at another the tone of voice, at another some characteristic movement of this or that ancestor, in our relations or others. [6]
In the Captain's modest epitome of the terrible romance you detect the fine old hero through it. [5]
I gave him minute instructions about how to detect indistinct jokes, and then went away, and left him chuckling placidly over the novelty of the idea. [5]
If you will look at the letter now, you will detect it yourself--it is observable in every line. [5]
For, underneath her kindest words,--and they are kind sometimes,--I can detect the note of enmity, of calculating scorn. [11]
I cannot say just how old the Tutor is, but I do not detect a gray hair in his head. [6]
Even her alert instinct had not been able to detect the acting, and the intervening hours were spent in speculating whether her fears had not been overdone. [9]
One could detect in the lapse of the waves along the shore the note of weariness preceding the change into the fretfulness and the tumult of tempests. [4]
You detect it in public places, in crowds, in the streets. [4]
It is, that if we only really knew, we could take our own lives or other people's with such ease and skill that it would be hard to detect it? [11]
I knew that, if I put up a complete stuffed man, the bird would detect the imitation at once: the perfection of the thing would show him that it was a trick. [4]
At wide intervals his straining ear did detect sounds, but they were so remote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and complaining ghosts of departed ones. [5]
I went with him to inspect the ancestor, and examined him from several points of view, without being able to detect anything more than a passing resemblance. [5]
She thought of him every day and every hour; and as soon as a vessel from the north cast anchor within sight, she watched the voyagers as they disembarked to detect him among them. [10]
He knows that her breast is transfixed with the sword of reason, and ready at all times to detect the hidden villainy of her enemies. [5]
Mary was the first to detect the brooch stuck into the ribbons that tied the stems of the flowers. [10]
Antinous was the first to detect it, cried 'Fire,' and warned his master. [10]
It is the fabulist's secret; he knows how to detect what does not exist, he knows how to see what is not seeable; it is his gift, and he works it many a time to poor dead Harriet Shelley's deep damage. [5]
It is an exciting kind of fishing, and you feel a fine thrill of pleasure every time you detect the glow of one of those limpid pebbles through the veil of dark sand. [5]
When a past event is somewhat prominently recorded in the palm, I can generally detect that, but minor ones often escape me--not always, of course, but often--but I haven't much confidence in myself when it comes to reading the future. [5]
When he stood erect, the sharpest eye could not detect it. [10]
This knowledge would enable Montcalm to detect Wolfe's purpose, and he would at once move his army in that direction. [11]
He had ridden down the street with his torchbearers, but where she had hidden herself his keen eyes could not detect, for the departing sound of hoofs betrayed to the breathless listeners that the pursuer had left their hiding-place far behind him. [10]
Did those people detect those changes? [5]
Certainly we could detect no such blemish. [5]
And I didn't detect it afterward in Melbourne, when I came on the stage for the first time, and the same question was dropped down upon me from the dizzy height of the gallery. [5]
I seemed to detect in myself a sort of sneaking fellow-feeling for the mummy in the museum, and a desire to swap news with him. [5]
One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them. [5]
She could not describe it, she could not tell just what it was, and yet her sharp mother-instinct seemed to detect it and perceive it. [5]
The general and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs of cowardice in the other. [2]
It would be better to shoot such rabble," and burst into loud laughter, so strange that Petya thought the French would immediately detect their disguise, and involuntarily took a step back from the campfire. [2]
And Alison even believed herself to detect, by something indefinable in their attitudes as they stood momentarily conversing in lowered voices, an aroused suspicion, an uneasy anticipation. [9]
Those speeches have been before the public for a considerable time, and if they have any inconsistency in them, if there is any conflict in them, the public have been able to detect it. [7]
I say fascinating, because if you once detect a human face produced on a great plan by unconscious nature, you never get tired of watching it. [5]
I should not be able to explain to you, gentlemen, how I know it, the signs being so subtle that only long experience and deep study can enable one to detect them. [5]
None so quick as he to detect a simulated interest, or a wily effort to make him ridiculous; and few tried this a second time, for he had a rapier-like gift of repartee that transfixed the offender like a moth on a pin. [9]
None so quick as Cousin Robert to detect deceptions which were hidden from my mother. [9]
Well, then, how are we to detect the guilty? [10]
The siren blew and blew insistently, as though it never meant to stop; and now for the first time she seemed to detect in it a note of futility. [9]
I have suspected a foot under the table as the prompter, but I have been unable to detect the slightest movement or look as if he were making one, on the part of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. [6]

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