How to Use discernible in a Sentence

discernible

adjective
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The play may seem like two one-acts soldered together, but there is a discernible throughline.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • And even DeSantis, for all of his lack of discernible charm, can be effective.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2023
  • However, the loop isn’t discernible so you won’t be distracted by it.
    Rachael Hogg, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2023
  • In the chaos of it all, a Russian drone, its ominous silhouette barely discernible against the darkened sky, zeroed in on the boat.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
  • There were no discernible issues with the playing surface during pregame warmups or during the game.
    Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The entire mélange is discernible, along with the funky, slightly fruity rum underpinning it.
    Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But this move had no discernible effect on the value of the dollar, which rose during this period.
    Lawrence H. Summers, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
  • Depending on the stem's design, the keypress might go down smoothly (in linear switches), with a discernible bump along the way (tactile switches), or with a bump and a click sound (clicky switches).
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2024

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