Distinctive

//dɪˈstɪŋktɪv//

"Distinctive" in a Sentence (21 examples)

Japan has many distinctive traits.

When dubbing Japanese TV series in English, characters from Osaka are sometimes given a Texas accent. Both Southern and Kansai accents are distinctive in their respective languages.

With its distinctive Chinese features, the qipao enjoys growing popularity in the international world of high fashion.

The tamborim lends a very slightly uneven and highly distinctive 16th note groove to samba music.

Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beasts’.

This artist has a very distinctive style.

Tom has a distinctive scar under his right eye.

Tom has a very distinctive laugh and, even in a crowd, can be heard above everybody else.

The Japanese language has many distinctive characteristics.

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin.

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a product in distinctive packaging

Our Apparell was giuen vs as a signe distinctiue to discern betwixt sex and sex.

[…]more judicious and distinctive heads...

his distinctive bass voice

Wordsworth's distinctive work was a war with pomp and pretence, and a display of the majesty of simple feelings and humble hearts.

The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people.

These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense.

Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them.

...the red umbrella, the distinctive of royalty here...

A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ.

Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives.

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