Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: discerned
IPA transcription: [dɪs'ɝnd]
Usage examples
  • As for rich embroidery, it is lost and not discerned.
  • In a very few minutes it arrived near enough to be accurately discerned.
  • Farther on the eye discerned their massive outline sharply defined against the hazy distant horizon.
  • That unity of purpose was essential to the effectiveness of the diversity was instinctively discerned.
  • So are there a number of little, and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
  • A tall figure, so wrapped and veiled that nothing but the womanly outline could be discerned, entered, supported by John Hewett.
  • She must bear these little mishaps." But there could be discerned in his face something which said "I ought to have foreseen this."
  • As the steamer slowly approached the dock, a small group of officers might be discerned, looking as eagerly landward as the men on shore had sought them out.
  • Perhaps no one less familiar with her face than Darrow would have discerned the tension of the smile she transferred from himself to Owen Leath, or have remarked that her eyes had hardened from misty grey to a shining darkness.
  • Plodding thoughtfully onward, he crossed a glade lying between Little Hintock Woods and the plantation which abutted on the park; and the spot being open, he was discerned there by Winterborne from the copse on the next hill, where he and his men were working.