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distinctive English

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distinctive

Distinctive is something that's noticeable because it's different. She knew it was him as soon as she heard his distinctive laugh. Tigers have a distinctive pattern of black stripes on their fur.

distinctive

(= typical) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor — Curtis Wilkie that is typical of you! (= classifiable) capable of being classified

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Simple sentences

Tom has a very distinctive laugh and, even in a crowd, can be heard above everybody else.
Japan has many distinctive traits.
This artist has a very distinctive style.

Movie subtitles

There doesn't seem to be any distinctive odour.
I think he's got a distinctive style.
Everybody's got a distinctive style these days.
You see, good liquor has a distinctive bouquet all its own.
Did it become necessary for judges. to wear any distinctive mark on their robes in 1935?
Well, you just both have this distinctive walk, sir.
In what way distinctive?
The same distinctive aroma!
Other important professions wear distinctive markings.
You know how the Chief Inspector has a distinctive voice and a way of talking.
Ah, very distinctive.
Though, I think it's rather distinctive, actually.
Definitely distinctive.
Thus, it had been established that the Solaris Ocean is a distinctive brain.
Whale knew Rains and his work and he knew the voice had to be a distinctive one because of the unusual nature of the role.
Miss Allain, can you point to a distinctive mark that would allow us to identify Pelletier?
Oliver and Kate are badly mauled. But there's no distinctive mark to indicate exactly what attacked them.
The spinning wheel too. And the china. His own furniture's so distinctive.
The shape is distinctive, the edge is thick.
It is very distinctive.
Turner, the Aberdeen Angus has a most distinctive aroma.
And from a boot with a very distinctive scar on it.
They're widespread, uncertain and very distinctive you only find them around defenseless game, right?
A magnificent leopard with most distinctive markings.
When this grass is burned, it gives off a distinctive odor of elephants.
No distinctive features.
He also told me I had the most distinctive style he'd heard in years.
He's got a very distinctive personal style.
Was it necessary for judges to wear any distinctive mark on their robes in 1935?
But some of you this morning. with a certain distinctive look, do not think we can forget the usual discipline.
The Doctor master has very distinctive heartbeats.
HE HAS A VERY DISTINCTIVE STYLE.
Rivers of molten sulfur flow down the sides of the volcanic mountains and are the probable source of Io's distinctive colors.
The cloud patterns are distinctive and gorgeous.
It's very distinctive.
I'm not sure we should be distinctive.
There's children like that. who have something magical. a distinctive grace.
Distinctive handwriting.
Distinctive wounds found on Laura's neck and shoulder appear to be claw marks, bites of some kind.

News and current affairs

In the year since the terrorist attacks of September 11 th, questions about Islam - its nature, its distinctive identity, its potential threat to the West - have seized center stage in intellectual and political debates.
Saudi Arabia's population is divided into distinctive regional, tribal, and sectarian groups.
No doubt China's own path will be as distinctive as the processes by which it has reached its current moment of opportunity.
True, advanced economies are relatively more stable, which means that the bonds would have a less distinctive risk-management advantage.
Because fundamental equality is granted in this way, the British system manages to cope better than others do with a greater expression of distinctive identities.
It does not deny distinctive identities and gives each the right to express itself within the private sphere.
But the eurozone debt crisis has distinctive features.
After all, universities are distinctive in producing new knowledge (through research) that is then consolidated and distributed (through teaching).
Japan caught up with the West with its own distinctive brand of capitalism, combining a dynamic export sector with an inefficient and protected set of activities in services and agriculture.
But against this shared background, France exhibits some important distinctive features.
Rather, what is distinctive about populists in power is that they attend only to their clientele (the rest of the population is utterly undeserving) and ride roughshod over checks and balances.
The monetary union's distinctive feature is the absence of a common state, despite the single currency.
All of these are productive, but each has a distinctive role.
The downturn was a distinctive balance-sheet recession that caused sizeable declines in household wealth and necessitated painful deleveraging.
Yet this seems to be the distinctive operating style of Kirchnerism, torn between an elite born and raised in Patagonia, a few close allies, and everybody else.
At a time when the Middle East is aflame with sectarian strife, the observance of the Christian holiday is a sad reminder that the region's distinctive religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity is rapidly disappearing.
And, as hard as they try, many traditional media outlets - especially those unable to claim quite distinctive content - find it increasingly difficult to compete.
Although it is very similar to a natural bacterium from which it was largely copied, the creators put distinctive strings of DNA into its genome to prove that it is not a natural object.

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