distinguish

distinguish
01. Children under the age of 4 cannot always [distinguish] between the truth and a lie.
02. Witnesses to the crime said the suspect had no [distinguishing] features.
03. The Beatles [distinguished] themselves as perhaps the most important popular musical group of the century.
04. This beer is [distinguishable] by its light berry flavors.
05. I could hear people talking in the next room, but no words were [distinguishable].
06. It was hard to [distinguish] if it was a man or a woman in the dark room.
07. Creativity and deviance can sometimes be difficult to [distinguish].
08. Calvin had a long and [distinguished] career in medicine.
09. Arthur C. Clarke once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is [indistinguishable] from magic.
10. Biologists have discovered that the fingerprints of koala bears are almost [indistinguishable] from those of a human.
11. The human eye can [distinguish] about 17,000 colors.
12. Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints and, in fact, koala prints cannot be [distinguished] from human fingerprints.
13. Culture has been described as a complex of ideas, or learned habits, that inhibit impulses and [distinguish] people from animals.
14. Scientists are now mapping patterns of tiny differences in DNA which [distinguish] one human from another.
15. The ability to reproduce is one of the [distinguishing] characteristics of living things.
16. The human ear can [distinguish] more than 1,500 different musical tones.
17. Fijian soldiers [distinguished] themselves in battle during the Second World War.
18. It can sometimes be difficult to [distinguish] between an American and Canadian accent.
19. There are not always visible [distinguishing] characteristics between different species of rhinoceros.
20. Scientist Amaeo Avogadro first [distinguished] molecules from atoms in 1811.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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