tell apart
Example Sentences
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Wherever they sit in the stack, they will be hard to tell apart from eventual losers, and doubly hard to buy before everyone else notices.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
This helps vendors when related species are difficult to tell apart and is expected to reduce mislabelling.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2024
Scientists have shown that people are able to tell apart morning from evening depictions in paintings using simple and subtle colour clues in the image.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
Both of Oswald’s guns had a story to tell apart from their role in the tragedy of Nov. 22, 1963.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2023
The boat was symmetrically shaped, with rounded ends that were hard to tell apart.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
