Discern In A Sentence

Definition of Discern

• Millicent taught me to sing from notes and to discern the aspect of the key-board.
• Our passenger was quick to discern the course, and became quite excited again.
• But as now we sound it in quies and quiesco, the judiciouse ear may discern tuae soundes.
• We looked keenly hither and thither, but could discern no trace of human existence.
• As he drew nearer, he could faintly discern the forms of two men in the chamber.
• Even from where they stood they could discern a sudden activity in the Austrian lines.
• Thus we can discern from the first the direction which Greek religion must take.
• The surprise came later when he was able to discern that Gray was leading his horse with him.
• And so much hidden poison lies therein Which scarce can you discern from medicine.
• I half-raised my feeble frame to try what objects I could discern through the gloom.
• Gray was able to discern more clearly now how worn out the poor creature was by all it had gone through.
• It occurred to her now that she might possibly discern the leading of the pillar of cloud from self-betrayal on his part.
• There are certain horrible situations in which we come to no decision till the moment when our friends discern our dishonor.
• A little way off they could discern the outlines of high piles of lumber and beyond these several buildings.
• You must reach out into the great current of life that is about them, and discern the direction and power of that current.
• Did he by some powerful intuition discern she was within hearing distance, or was he in his disappointment rehearsing to her empty chair?
• Were not the soul originally possessed of and dominated by the idea of good, it could never discern it elsewhere.
• What of "science" will remain to them if the idea which endeavours to discern the causes of the facts is banished?
• I could discern what appeared to be the habitations of men on different parts of the lake; but there was not a tree or a shrub to be seen.
• The arrows of death fly unseen at noonday; the sharpest sight can't discern them.
• He was in a situation to discern what sort of Whig principles they entertained with whom it was his wish to form an eternal connection.
• He could discern pink and white and blue and gold; but the indeterminate shades, the subtleties and mysteries of charm were enigmatical to him.
• For if your father should discern your fear, He'll think you conscious of a fault.
• On this day he could discern a white, red, or yellow color, particularly when bright and shining.
• Bill thought he could just discern the first outlines of the big trees; then all was dark, and the amphibian roared on into the maw of black night.
• He would seem to have far to go, but yet to be certainly drawing nearer to his home, which indeed he seems to discern afar off.
• He stumbled on across the sand hillocks, and presently could discern a huddled figure on the ground, with its back propped up against a hillock.
• Moreover, I satisfied myself by experiments, that the patient could not in the least discern objects by sight.
• Soon, a faint gray mass to my right, the palace itself loomed up, but the blanket of mist was too thick for me to discern windows or doors.
• Her farthest imagination could discern no traces of chagrin, and Maria looked unusually well that day in a new suit.
• Said I not unto thee that I discern no more between the darkness and the light, between the shadow and the substance?
• Philosophy awakes in the spirit of governments and nations the wisdom to discern what is essentially and actually right and reasonable in the real world.
• The dark cabin, wherein, descending from the sunshiny deck, it was difficult to discern the furniture, looking-glasses, and mahogany wainscoting.
• To try to discern one by the methods created for the other is like what George Eliot says of putting on spectacles to detect odors.
• And on the first day he was with King Arthur thereas he was set on high upon a scaffold to discern who was best worthy of his deeds.

• I walked to the window; tried to discern the landscape through the glass.
• It preyed upon his mind, as we could discern by his morose expression.
• Far away he could discern the outline of the brooding Louvre.
• But I could discern no trace of such a mood about either of them.
• Looking round, Amazed, he could discern no face he knew.