Use distinctly in a sentence
Sentences starting with distinctly
- Distinctly recalled now, never to be forgotten, Venters saw in Oldring's magnificent eyes the rolling of great, glad surprise--softness--love! [13]
- Distinctly they had me at an advantage, though, to be sure, I had betrayed Mrs. Malbrouck into something more than a suspicion of emotion. [11]
- Distinctly false. [5]
Sentences ending with distinctly
- Through the open window the moans of the adjutant could be heard more distinctly. [2]
- Indeed, so delicately, vaguely, had the work been done that only eyes like Gaston's, trained to observe, with the sight of a hawk and a sense of the mysterious, could have seen so quickly or so distinctly. [11]
- When we got to him the moon revealed him distinctly. [5]
- Rostov heard the thud of their hoofs and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and even their faces, more and more distinctly. [2]
- I have learned this only too distinctly! [10]
- The watchers on the shore could now see its outlines distinctly. [10]
- Through the lattices the nave amid choir could be viewed distinctly. [11]
- The air was still, and my voice carried distinctly. [11]
- One light was still burning below, and she could see distinctly. [11]
- She kept straight on, hearing the baying every moment more distinctly. [4]
Short sentences using distinctly
- I feel it distinctly. [5]
- Young Tom's was distinctly so. [9]
More example sentences with the word distinctly in them
- She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
- I cannot tell you how uncomfortable I felt, and then--yes, Els, then I first realised distinctly what you are to me. [10]
- I herewith send you a copy of that letter, which perhaps shows my position as distinctly as any new one I could write. [7]
- I heard his words distinctly, but at first lacked the faculty of stringing them together, or rather of extracting their collective sense. [9]
- I have often wondered why I recollect my grandfather so distinctly and my grandmother so dimly. [10]
- I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
- The great Destroyer, whose awful shadow it was that had silenced me, came near me,--but never, so as to be distinctly seen and remembered, during my tender years. [6]
- The acclaim with which the Southern literature has been received is partly due to its novelty, the new life it exhibited, but more to the recognition in it of a fresh flavor, a literary quality distinctly original and of permanent importance. [4]
- I could see what was passing, but could hear distinctly only the voices of the men. [10]
- In no other way could certain phases of our society be made to appear so distinctly as when reflected in the once pure mirror of a woman's soul. [4]
- What this something was, Dudley Venner could hardly say; but he felt it distinctly, and it sealed his lips. [6]
- I believe I was the butt of more than one jest for my aloofness, though I could not hear distinctly for the noise they made. [9]
- And now Pentaur was distinctly visible against a background of flaring light, for some fire-brands had fallen on the dry palm-thatch of the hovel behind him, and roaring flames rose up to the dark heavens. [10]
- His nasal voice was complaining, yet distinctly aggressive, and he emphasized his words by gestures. [9]
- Its long white-washed walls, it is true, glimmered through the gloom as distinctly as ever, but instead of towering--as usual at this time--mute and lifeless above the slumbering town--the most active bustle was going on within and around it. [10]
- There were some voices, however, which he could hear more distinctly than others, and Lord Windlehurst's was one of them--clear, well-modulated, and penetrating. [11]
- Margaret remembered her very distinctly, although she had only exchanged a word with her at the memorable dinner in New York when Henderson had revealed her feelings to herself. [4]
- A fig-tree concealed us from the fugitives, but we could distinctly see them, as they passed us at a distance of not more than four steps. [10]
- The visits impressed us all strongly, and the one I first remember could not have occurred later than my fifth year, for I distinctly recollect that Frau Rapp's horses took us to the churchyard. [10]
- There is an unusually fine railway station; so large is it, in fact, that it seemed somewhat overdone, in the matter of size, at first; but at the end of a few months it was perceived that the mistake was distinctly the other way. [5]
- He had distinctly understood that, through Semestre, he was to lose a nice cheese, and, when the housekeeper returned, ordered a hen to tell each person present how many years he or she had lived in the world. [10]
- After looking about two or three days, you called and distinctly told me that if I would add the Blenker division to the force already in the department, you would undertake the job. [7]
- On one or two of these occasions Cynthia had been startled to find his eyes fixed upon her, and though the feeling she had was closely akin to fear, she found something distinctly pleasurable in it. [9]
- It looks exasperatingly true; and is distinctly offensive. [5]
- I think I tried to speak twice without making myself distinctly audible. [6]
- Resenting therefore the tone he had assumed, I took occasion not only to reiterate my previously expressed opinion somewhat more aggressively, but also went on to insinuate that he was himself distinctly lacking in any real appreciation of what was excellent. [4]
- The article, sent to the Mercury, was distinctly of the Comstock variety; it was accepted, but it apparently made no impression, and he did not follow it up. [5]
- The physician's efforts to revive the sufferer were presently successful; again the sick man opened his eyes, and spoke more distinctly and loudly than before: "There is a perfume of musk. [10]
- She came striding to meet her new friends, attired in a rustling canary-green silk robe whose train swept the ground, but it was raised so high in front that the brown hunting-boots encasing her well-formed feet were distinctly visible. [10]
- If he lives to die again, he will distinctly recollect the discovery of America. [5]
- The Nubian waited to be summoned, but her dark face must have showed distinctly that something important and urgent had brought her here, for the wounded man added to his first words of greeting the expression of a fear that she had no good news. [10]
- For a long time the one American counteraction, almost the only, to this English influence was the newspaper, which has always kept alive and diffused a distinctly American spirit--not always lovely or modest, but national. [4]
- People did not think whether he was handsome or not; his features bore the impress of his intellectual power so distinctly that the first glance revealed the presence of a remarkable man. [10]
- At that instant there came distinctly through the wood a faint, trilling sound. [11]
- Images never presented themselves as distinctly to those who could see as to the blind man in his darkness. [10]
- I also saw them long after Nenny's death in one of Murillo's Madonnas in Seville, and even now they rise distinctly before my memory. [10]
- I heard distinctly the voice of the Divinity in the sanctuary, and strange indeed was the speech that met my ear. [10]
- Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but took to be the enemy. [2]
- Venters distinctly saw the red flash of his red face. [13]
- This is distinctly the province of the essayist, and in it Warner always displayed his fullest strength. [4]
- He was not the man, for the sake of a brawl and luck at play, to break friendship with the faithful companion, who had shown distinctly enough how fondly he loved his darling. [10]
- When he died the last time, he distinctly remembered the landing of the Pilgrims, which took place in 1620. [5]
- The devotees of the higher education will perhaps need to approach the subject from another point of view--namely, what they are willing to surrender in order to come into a distinctly scholastic influence. [4]
- A scar on the head from a wound received four years ago, and yet distinctly visible in the moonlight! [10]
- I saw that the gorilla while not looking distinctly like me was exactly what my great grand father would have looked like if I had had one. [5]
- I distinctly remember the first half- dozen puffs of that cigarette, the first taste of kava it had the flavour of soft soap and Dover's powder. [11]
- He soon felt the feathers on his back stroked by the clouds, and yet he saw everything below him on the earth more distinctly than ever before. [10]
- In spite of the fact that you are distinctly American, you have a wide interest in what is going on in the world. [9]
- Dolokhov was holding the Englishman's hand and clearly and distinctly repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to Anatole and Pierre. [2]
- Every leaf of the cottonwood is distinctly defined--it is a kodak for faithful, hard, unsentimental detail; the other an impressionist picture, delicious to look upon, full of a subtle and exquisite charm, but all details fused in a swoon of vague and soft loveliness. [5]
- That which makes the charm and power of woman, that for which she is created, is as distinctly feminine as that which makes the charm and power of men is masculine. [4]
- Of this island the centre is London; of London the heart is "the City," and in the City you can put your finger on one spot where the pulse of the world is distinctly felt to beat. [4]
- The story of the Appearance in the chamber was, I suppose, invented afterwards; but of the injury to the building there could be no question; and the zig-zag line, where the mortar is a little thicker than before, is still distinctly visible. [6]
- I am satisfied, that, much higher up in the scale of life, character is distinctly shown at the age of--2 or--3 months. [6]
- The Judge insists that, in the first speech I made, in which I very distinctly made that charge, he thought for a good while I was in fun! [7]
- In relation to that, I have my mind very distinctly made up. [7]
- He also saw that, after Frank left, the distance between Lord Haldwell and Julia became distinctly less--they were both staying at Greyhope. [11]
- Then I say that to destroy a thing which is distinctly affirmed and supported by the supreme law of the land, even by a State constitution or law, is a violation of that supreme law, and there is no escape from it. [7]
- It was plain that Julia, though often fascinated against her will, deemed this sort of thing distinctly immoral. [9]
- But he thought that he heard blows from within against one of the shutters of the ground-floor, which by Katuti's orders had been securely closed; he followed the sound--he was not mistaken, the knocking could be distinctly heard. [10]
- It was a task distinctly to his taste, and one might have thought he was reading the sentence of a Hastings. [9]
- Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lifted his wings, stuck his head far down below his shoulders toward me and croaked again--a croak with a distinctly insulting expression about it. [5]
- In the United States, under totally different conditions, and under an economic theory that, whatever its defects on paper, has nevertheless insisted more upon the worth of the individual man, we have had, all the same, a distinctly material development. [4]
- Someone--it sounded like Speranski--was distinctly ejaculating ha-ha-ha. [2]
- Unfortunately, his soothing speeches fell on hard ground, for Semestre scarcely vouchsafed a reply, and at last distinctly intimated that he interrupted her. [10]
- In case the Spanish sceptre is pressed upon me--and the indications unquestionably are that it will be--I shall feel it necessary to have certain things set down and distinctly understood beforehand. [5]
- When he covets somebody's money--isn't that rather distinctly material and gross? [5]
- The conventions were so photographed by hundreds of pens, that the public outside saw them almost as distinctly as the crowd in attendance. [4]
- There was a silence, brief, indeed, but long enough for Hodder to feel more and more distinctly the granite hardness which the other had become, to experience a rising, reenforcing anger. [9]
- We do not shun our dying friends; the not having distinctly taken leave of one among them, whom we left in all kindness and affection, will often embitter the whole remainder of a life. [12]
- As his forefinger shows a little too distinctly that he uses a pen, I shall compliment him by calling him the Man of Letters, until I find out more about him. [6]
- For he distinctly shivered, though he was not cold. [11]
- And never had she so distinctly represented to him the mysterious essence of fate. [9]
- I think I shall never remember any thing I saw there distinctly but the mummies, and the Transfiguration, by Raphael, and some other things it is not necessary to mention now. [5]
- She had not seen him alone since his return, but he had seemed distinctly desirous that she should enjoy the festivities he had provided. [9]
- He could distinctly see the distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who evidently did not realize what they were doing. [2]
- The effect was secretive, extraordinarily confidential; enabling him to sell sprinklers, it ought to have helped him to make love, so distinctly personal was it, implying as it did that the individual addressed was alone of all the world worthy of consideration. [9]
- The Reader of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, before commencing to read from this book, shall distinctly announce its full title and give the author's name. [5]
- I now distinctly say this--if you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago, I will furnish one hundred dollars to bear the expenses of the trip. [7]
- That is to say if I allowed you to send me what you believe to be good cigars it would distinctly mean that I meant to smoke them, whereas I should do nothing of the kind. [5]
- Loyseleur had distinctly said and promised that "all would be well with her. [5]
- There was a rustling among the crowd and it again subsided, so that Pierre distinctly heard the pleasantly human voice of the Emperor saying with emotion: "I never doubted the devotion of the Russian nobles, but today it has surpassed my expectations. [2]
- Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness of the night. [2]
- The magnificently furnished room to which she was conducted was directly above the council chamber, and sometimes, in the silence of the night, the voice of the Queen or the loud cheers of men were distinctly heard. [10]
- This law, which results from observing the life and works of the greatest writers, has shown itself very distinctly in a minor one like myself. [10]
- The guide distinctly remembers playing with them; one of them he kept for a long time, and he didn't know but he could find it now, but he guessed it had disappeared. [4]
- How distinctly I remember the services. [4]
- He could distinctly recollect the first and second installations and death of President Washington, the surrender of Cornwallis, the battles of Trenton and Monmouth, and Bunker Hill, the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence, and Braddock's defeat. [5]
- I did not recognize in him inferiority of literary taste half so distinctly as I did simplicity of character and fearless acknowledgment of his inaptitude for scholarship. [6]
- Now we're distinctly rating low, the laugh is on us somehow. [11]
- Take him away, Praxinoa, and understand distinctly that I am much dissatisfied with you. [10]
- I was distinctly pleased by this astuteness, and I spent more time in speculation. [9]
- This suture occasionally persists more or less distinctly in man after maturity; and more frequently in ancient than in recent crania, especially, as Canestrini has observed, in those exhumed from the Drift, and belonging to the brachycephalic type. [1]
- When she read over the completed letter, she was satisfied with it and herself, for it breathed firm confidence in the victory of the good cause, and also distinctly and unconstrainedly expressed her cheerful willingness to bear the worst. [10]
- This American lady, our revered and sacred founder, is distinctly referred to and her coming prophesied, in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse; she could not have been more plainly indicated by St. John without actually mentioning her name. [5]
- I was not only struck by the clearness of his views--some of which were distinctly novel, at least to me--but by the felicity and effectiveness with which they were put. [4]
- The steps of one's progress are distinctly marked. [5]
- Selene stood on one foot, leaning, to recover herself, against the right-hand post of the window-opening, and there she could hear more distinctly than from her couch, the voice of the waves as they broke on the stone quay just behind dame Hannah's little house. [10]
- He caught sight of us, and I remember distinctly the whites of his rolling eyes as he raised his axe higher, and shouted hoarsely, and as if the threat was meant for us: "They shall get it! [10]
- The mere fact of this change is more distinctly complained of than is any conduct of the new officer, or other consequence of the change. [7]
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