How to Use discrete in a Sentence

discrete

adjective

• Eliminating stress entirely is not an option. If there are discrete sources of stress in your life—a relationship, a job, a health problem—you can and should take action to try to mitigate them. But my experience is that we all are subject to a kind of conservation law of stress. If stress recedes in one area, it seems to increase in another.
  — Time, 17 Oct. 2005
• In discrete-only mode, that dropped to just over four and a half hours.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
• This Shark Tank find is useful, discrete and easy to store.
  — Nicole Briese, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
• Their tasks are discrete: Clean up the scene, prepare the body for burial.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Here are the best self-defense weapons that are discrete and easy to acquire.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
• This told them there was something hard and discrete at the center of the proton.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The Tempo Move adds a discrete piece of furniture to hold the mount and some equipment.
  — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2023
• On top of that, a discrete snap closure pocket is tucked into the back along the right hand vent.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 28 June 2023
• Humans decided to group the rise and fall of the sun into discrete days and weeks.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• That’s the advantage of the discrete Nvidia graphics card.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• After all, the wall is not a solid object, it’s made up of discrete atoms.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2025
• Besides the flattering and comfortable fit of the dress, shoppers can’t get enough of the discrete pockets on the sides of the skirt.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2023
• Without the roots holding it in place, the soil can give way as a discrete mass and slide down the mountain, Dr. Roering said.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
• This is because beds are not cleared, turned and planted with discrete crops.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 14 July 2021
• That’s the forte of the modern mobile app, after all: easing the completion of a discrete task.
  — Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 23 June 2023
• Human awareness of any discrete moment is thought to max out at a tenth of a second.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Or even a lobby per se—just a discrete private entrance with a 24-hour concierge.
  — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2022
• The risk of nuclear disaster tends to shift in more discrete steps.
  — WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• Again, don’t expect to see discrete Radeon RX 500X graphics cards on store shelves.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 11 Apr. 2018
• The Recharge Room aims to address these concerns in a more discrete and non-stigmatized way.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
• According to this model, breakups are not a discrete event but a series of stages.
  — Isle McElroy, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
• Those looking for a discrete haven should look no further.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 19 May 2022
• There are no fewer than 164 discrete portraits of our man.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• But the White House largely treated these as discrete events, not as signs of a mounting problem.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The country’s 22 biggest cities now hold three discrete rounds of land sales each year, rather than dribbling out lots.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• This could have been a much more positive story with even a low-end discrete GPU.
  — PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
• Each thing in the space shines with its own discrete significance.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 15 May 2020
• The key was to assign a discrete task to every producer.
  — Michael Simon Johnson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
• There’s no way that happens in a single, discrete meeting.
  — George Bradt, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• None of these notebooks' integrated graphics comes within miles of a gaming laptop's discrete GPU.
  — PC Magazine, 13 Apr. 2025