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"Discrete" in a Sentence (12 examples)
I'm very discrete.
I am very discrete.
Every march is composed of discrete steps.
Let's try to be discrete about this.
The king made appropriate adjustments for the vile being. The king knew the being's childlike mind would continue to lure him in. The vile being had a taste for that which he could not have and it clouded his sense of reality. He never saw it coming until it was too late. The fear and anger in the vile being's eyes was matched by the king's discrete nodding.
The researchers found that, although a large proportion of their test subjects didn’t have the traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis, they did show discrete signs, such as a greater waist circumference, and visceral fat covering the internal organs within the chest and abdomen.
a government with three discrete divisions
There are two laws discrete, / Not reconciled,— / Law for man, and law for thing; / The last builds town and fleet, / But it runs wild, / And doth the man unking.
But analysis, penetrating beneath the fact of Sense in search of its ideal factors, declares that this mass of marble is something very different from what it appears : its seeming continuity is broken up into discrete molecules, separated from each other as the stars in the Milky Way are separated ; and its seeming homogeneity is resolved into heterogeneous substances, which are themselves in all probability composite.
It's not that there aren't measurable, quantifiable differences between all these categories we impose upon things, it's just that for the most part they fit not into discrete units, but into a continuum.
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a discrete sum
"I resign my life, but not my honour" is a discrete proposition.
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