How to Use define in a Sentence

define

verb

• That fence defines the far edge of the property.
• She believes that success should be defined in terms of health and happiness.
• The government study seeks to define urban poverty.
• Her book aims to define acceptable social behavior.
• Public works projects are defined as those that use more than $1,000 of public funds.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• Creating characters who aren't defined by their size but aren't asked to ignore it either.
  — Allen Zadoff, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
• Under such time pressure, researchers will need to cut corners, such as skipping checks and tests that define careful work.
  — Jason Wright, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2022
• One of the best ways to get started is to understand and define what muscle-building actually is.
  — Jake Boly, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• The bold lines that define his lush landscapes flow into one other and represent interconnection.
  — Audrey Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2022
• Work together to define (or redefine) a North Star that includes both of your ambitions for your careers.
  — Bykomal Minhas, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
• These names define hybrids by their parentage, not their individual existences.
  — Sabrina Imbler, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
• Her tenure as Prime Minister, defined by transformative leadership, underscored the ebb and flow of progress.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 26 Nov. 2024
• The companies that recognize the strategic importance of data today will define the industries of tomorrow.
  — Gaurav Aggarwal, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• An argument the playoff selection committee had hoped to avoid will now define the larger selection process after an almost debate-free home stretch toward the postseason.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
• Still, Reale is the first in Italy, where strong gastronomic identities define food, and fine-dining in particular -- with heavy emphasis on meat, fish and rich sauces.
  — Valentina Di Donato, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
• For celebrities in the public eye, any style staple — from a favorite shade of lipstick to a go-to pair of sunglasses — can help define an instantly recognizable aesthetic that endears them to their fans.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
• The rest of my hair looked shiny, defined, and healthy.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 3 Sep. 2019
• For me, that was a big, defining question to bring to the group.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Goody was at the frontier of this new genre and helped to define it.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Where are you supposed to find the time to define these three pieces?
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• At the heart of the debate has always been how to define open space.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Patrizia to life in the three decades that span the film and define her story.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2021
• The need to fight corruption is clear, but so is the need to define it.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 5 Oct. 2021
• Johnson has one of the jobs that might, with luck, come to define our era.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
• This was the first year the survey asked the questions, which didn’t define those terms.
  — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• Her mother used to tell her that the event wouldn’t define them.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
• John Lennon once said that your voice defines rock and roll.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• And it’s used by philosophers a lot to define a good life.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
• Cheyenne Woods has always had to define her place in the pro golf world.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• The poll doesn't define what a civil war would look like.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024