Marked

//mɑːkt//

"Marked" in a Sentence (17 examples)

There are marked and rapidly, steadily increasing health benefits to giving up.

The party was a marked success.

The invention of the transistor marked a new era.

The cattle are marked with brands.

The contrast between the two ideas is very marked.

The answer was marked wrong.

They marked the damaged goods down by 40%.

The woman's face was marked with grief.

There have always been fashionable faces and expressions which marked an epoch.

His steps were clearly marked in the snow.

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The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.

In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.

The drop in merchandise and mineral receipts again reflects the fall in steel output, most marked in the North-East; […].

"Young" is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is "How old are you?".

It is frequently the case that of two units in contrast (and for simplicity we may restrict ourselves to two-term contrasts) one will be positive, or marked, the other being neutral, or unmarked. […] The plural is positively marked by the final s, whereas the singular is unmarked.

A marked man.

My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter. If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it.

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