How to Use discernible in a Sentence

discernible

adjective
Definition of discerniblenext
Synonyms for discerniblenext
  • The Ravens offense seemed to lack a discernible game plan.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Still, a small ray of hope may just be discernible in the story of the Yokoboris.
    — Will Ripley, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The first discernible change came in the 3-2 victory away at RB Leipzig.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The weird, in the weird-sisters sense of the word, has a discernible place in Moore’s fiction, albeit in the margins.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
  • There’s a barely discernible hint of what once stood there: La Xalapeña.
    — Alan Chazaro, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Lines of trucks snaked around in no discernible pattern.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The fallout of those efforts is discernible in the finished works.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The reason the beat is so discernible is because of the sample at its center.
    — Ashwin Rodrigues, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
  • My waistline had filled out to meet my bustline, but not with a discernible bump.
    — Emily Holt, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
  • And the glitches in fake video are less discernible on a tiny mobile screen than a living-room TV.
    — Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Parking the Cherokee, Arutunoff turned off the light switch, a move that had no discernible effect on the lights.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
  • But those three men — now in their 60s — have shown no discernible signs of repeating that trick.
    — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
  • As for what comes next in the lives of women forced to give birth, Trump has no discernible plan — not even a concept of a plan — for child care.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • This keeps them discernible at a glance and in full view rather than hidden behind other apps or down in the dock.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • There are no discernible dangers to your business on the horizon.
    — Craig Sturgill, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The most clearly discernible of the Macs within these logs is a 15-inch MacBook Air, which has long been rumored.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Maduro said something that wasn’t discernible but appeared to be an attempt to persuade Chávez to skip the train ride.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Jurors were shown a single image of her body, barely discernible at the end of the hallway.
    — Dylan Lovan, ajc, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Based on the spread movement so far, there is no discernible difference between the two.
    — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This keeps them discernible at a glance and in full view rather than hidden behind other windows or down in the dock.
    — Wired, 28 July 2022
  • The two sets of dots formed two distinct, easily discernible waves.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • If not for that, Icarus and Earendel would not have been discernible given their vast distances.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And sometimes greatness comes and goes for no discernible reason at all.
    — Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • None of it has stopped the Vice-President from moving into a lead, slim though discernible, against him.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024
  • No actual spit is discernible in the video, and no motive was ascribed.
    — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The high-level turmoil in Moscow had no discernible effect on the battlefields to the south.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
  • Not to mention that most of the film takes place in such darkness that the action will only be discernible on the best high-def televisions.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
  • That growth has had no discernible effect on the performance of the economy.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, the culling continues, with a discernible impact on kangaroos.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Five minutes into Penny’s restraint, Neely stopped moving with any discernible purpose.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2024

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