distinctively
Example Sentences
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By the time they were done, the timber that remained looked distinctively shrublike.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
But he concluded that birthright citizenship was by now distinctively American.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026
While the beans are sourced from coffee estates in the south, the food is distinctively north Indian.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
“I am trying my best to get it on,” she sings, in her distinctively combative, percussive, very Australian voice.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024
So widespread was Olmec iconography—jaguar babies, carved stelae, distinctively shaped ceramics—that many archaeologists believed its very ubiquity was evidence that the Olmec “not only engendered Mesoamerica but also brought forth the first Mesoamerican empire.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
