definite

Example Sentences

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“I never had a definite place which was my room or where I retired specially to write,” Agatha Christie said in her autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“It brings back some definite memories,” he told me.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

“There’s definite value in different types of minoxidil, delivering it differently, and thinking about how it might work better,” Cotsarelis said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

“This is a definite problem in communication and coordination.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

It was such a definite lament that José Arcadio Buendía woke up beside her and was happy with the idea that his son was going to be a ventriloquist.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez