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Example sentences for "difference"

Lexicographically close words:
dieux; diez; diferentes; differ; differed; differenced; differences; differencing; differens; different
  1. A gait is said to be =correspondingly faster or correspondingly slower= than another gait when there is a difference of one degree between the two (par.

  2. First of all, there is a radical difference between the bend of a contour round the head of a valley and its bend round the nose of a ridge.

  3. Note first the difference in sharpness in the contour bends; also how the valley contours point to the highland and the ridge contours to the lowland.

  4. There is a great deal of difference between being diligent in the business in the shop, and leading the whole business of the shop.

  5. There is a visible difference between the things which we may do, and the things which we must do.

  6. There is a great deal of difference also between trusting a servant in your business, and trusting him with your business: the first is leaving your business with him, the other is leaving your business to him.

  7. But what is the difference in the consequences?

  8. I rather guess it don't amount to much difference after all, Felix, whether you climb first, or get pushed up a tree.

  9. He left the raft and so did I, the only difference being that he was safe on land while I went into the water and came up under the raft.

  10. Most of the officers had come from the ranks and the only difference was in the pay.

  11. The gods may know where she learned the difference between right and wrong.

  12. There's a difference between a murderer and one who righteously avenges a wrong.

  13. It'll make all the difference to the mountaineers' future," she said.

  14. My boy was beaten, but the difference was that, if he had not been on new ground, he would have been beaten without daring to fight.

  15. Yet in this case there is no just apprehension of the real difference in God's sight of the things that differ, nor a right mind and heart to choose or to reject so as to be in harmony with God's judgment.

  16. So that the difference seems to arise mainly from a secret failure of faith on this point, due to the impression made by long ages in which Christ has not come.

  17. The difference has been mainly on the point, how to make it clear that men are not dealt with as inert nor as irresponsible; that they must not hold themselves excused from working on the ground that God works all.

  18. What this difference was we do not know; and it is of no consequence.

  19. And then they had not managed the difference well.

  20. It makes a great difference to religion when men are persuaded to forego this faith.

  21. There has been no difference of caste in England since the time of the Stuarts, and since the Guelphs and Whig oligarchy, in contrast to the Tory landed gentry encouraged the rise of an urban middle-class.

  22. It is rather a difference of political opinions about questions of constitutional law and taxation.

  23. The British statesman, after having settled all outstanding points of difference with France and Russia, wished to make similar agreements with us.

  24. The difference between the power of a Ruling House and a National State, between dynastic and democratic ideas of government, had to be decided, and as usual we were on the wrong side.

  25. There is a strong admixture of Scotch there, and all who know the country will admit that there is nearly as much difference between men from the north and south of Ireland as from different countries.

  26. Captain, we all have our dangers to go through; and may be a priest has as many as a soldier; and we only show a difference of taste, after all, in the selection.

  27. Whether this tradition be true or not, it is plain that she seems always to have remembered their difference of rank, and to have been rather cold than encouraging.

  28. Compare this bristling dialogue with the inane stuff that too often passes for comedy nowadays, and one finds all the difference between real humour and flippancy.

  29. Yet before the law there was very little if any difference between a performance of "Hamlet" by the great Betterton, and an exhibition of the marital infelicities of Punch and Judy.

  30. To his narrow mind there was no great difference between a lot of rope-dancers and a company of players, or, if there should be, the advantage was quite in favour of the former.

  31. It will give mother a little peace and it makes no difference to me.

  32. I shall be dead, you know, this time five years, and what difference does it make whether I'm married or not?

  33. This was rendered necessary by the difference in height of the nave as compared with that of the choir.

  34. Tight boots and gloves, and doing nothing with them, I allow make a difference by the time they are twenty.

  35. He might not be a slave-driver now, but he had been one--and the world of difference it made to her!

  36. What is the difference between the letter from the slave-driver's hand and the slave-driver himself?

  37. There was not a week's difference in their ages, each having been born four years before the immortal Declaration of Independence.

  38. The difference in their speed was shown by their immediate separation, with rapidly increasing spaces between them; but the young Shawanoe drew away from them, as a child draws away from the stationary object which frightens it.

  39. The difference was so marked that there was no room for self-deception in the matter.

  40. Although the Wyandot threw his almost at the same instant, yet there was just enough difference in time to make one a success and the other a failure.

  41. There had never been a difference of opinion between them in their lives.

  42. This was so much earlier than they had expected that it made some difference in Benito's plans.

  43. What difference does it make when you can get cash and get it easy?

  44. He is what they call a missionary-trader--though evidently there is little difference in the varieties in this country.

  45. There was this difference that set the ragged dirty crew in a proud and quiet atmosphere that made them seem almost distinguished by comparison, and certainly more desirable.

  46. O'Malley calculated the difference between the Russian Calendar and the one he was accustomed to.

  47. He understood the difference between them as he had never understood it before.

  48. These differences probably indicate the difference of rank in the royal household of the persons to whom the apartments were assigned.

  49. The people of Shumir and Accad, therefore, were one and the same Turanian nation, the difference in the name being merely a geographical one.

  50. Apart from this fundamental difference in spirit, the identity in all the essential points of fact is amazing, and variations occur only in lesser details.

  51. As is to be expected, there is a notable difference in the specimens of different periods.

  52. But as liberty and order, so conceived, imply one another, the difference between the two positions ceases to be one of ends and becomes one of means.

  53. There, I venture to think, is the real difference between us.

  54. Sadducees, difference between them and the Pharisees in points of ritual, 22 f.

  55. He felt that there was a wide difference between himself and the Galilaean Christians, and that he would not be able to make terms with them.

  56. The first great difference between the Ebionites and the heathen Christians lay in their views concerning the person of Jesus; the one honoring him as the son of David, the other worshiping him as the Son of God.

  57. Heathen, difference of attitude towards them between Hillelites and Shammaites, 270.

  58. There was a difference of opinion with regard to this important question.

  59. The assembly at Lydda, as usual, adopted the middle course, that a difference should be made between important precepts and those which were less weighty.

  60. This circumstance shows that the unity of the Law was so established that a difference of opinion no longer implied, as formerly, a total break, and Joshua, no doubt, had contributed to this result.

  61. In consequence of this difference Chasda appears to have withdrawn from Sora to the neighboring town of Cafri, but there he felt isolated and slighted.

  62. What I conceive to be the vital difference between Theism and Christianity,' wrote Elsmere in reply, 'is that as an explanation of things Theism can never be disproved.

  63. He was only anxious, half dazed as he was, to make out wherein lay the vital difference between his present self and the Elsmere who had passed along that road an hour before.

  64. There is the great difference between us, Squire.

  65. But as one came nearer, certain signs of difference became visible.

  66. She seemed apart from the rest, Robert thought; not, clearly, by her own will, but by virtue of a difference of temperament which could not but make itself felt.

  67. For his more modern sense, deeply Christianised as it is, assumes almost without argument the sacredness of passion and its claim--wherein a vast difference between himself and that solitary wrestler in Marrisdale.

  68. But without this inner glow, in the presence of the profound spiritual difference circumstance had developed between her and the man she loved, everything was a burden.

  69. Do you get out, Lizzie; I'll pay the difference at Brighton.

  70. Each person has his own way of doing business; I don't see how it interferes with you, or what difference it makes to you, if I spend three minutes or three days writing a letter.

  71. It will make no difference to me, your love, for I shall be dead.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "difference" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberration; accommodation; account; achievement; adaptation; adjustment; aggregate; alienation; alteration; amelioration; amount; analyze; annulet; anomaly; antagonism; apostasy; argument; armory; arms; asymmetry; azure; balance; bandeau; bar; baton; bearings; bend; betterment; billet; blazon; breach; break; camouflage; canton; cast; change; charge; chevron; chief; clash; cockatrice; combat; conflict; contention; contradiction; contrariety; contrast; controversy; conversion; coronet; count; credit; crescent; crest; cross; crown; defection; deficit; degeneration; demur; departure; derangement; deterioration; deviation; device; difference; differentiate; differentiation; difficulty; disabuse; disaccord; disagreement; disapproval; discern; discontinuity; discord; discrepancy; discriminate; disguise; disharmony; disjoin; disorder; disparity; disproportion; dissatisfaction; dissemblance; dissension; dissent; dissidence; dissimilarity; dissonance; distance; distinction; distinguish; disunion; divergence; diversification; diversify; diversion; diversity; divide; division; eagle; eccentricity; element; equation; ermine; escutcheon; extremity; faction; field; file; fitting; formula; fret; fur; gap; garland; gradation; helmet; imbalance; improvement; inadequacy; incompatibility; incongruity; inconsistency; inconstancy; individuality; individualize; inequality; inferiority; injustice; instability; insufficiency; irregularity; know; label; lawlessness; lion; lozenge; makeup; mark; metal; mischief; misunderstanding; mitigation; mixture; modification; modify; modulation; monstrosity; motto; mutability; negation; net; nonconformity; number; odds; opposition; ordinary; overthrow; pale; particularize; pluralism; polarization; product; qualification; quantity; quarrel; quarter; quartering; realignment; reckoning; reform; reformation; rejection; remainder; remaking; renewal; repudiation; repugnance; reversal; revival; revolution; rift; rose; sable; score; scutcheon; secession; segregate; separate; separateness; sever; shade; shield; shift; shortcoming; specialize; spread; strife; sum; summation; superiority; surplus; switch; tale; tally; tilt; tincture; total; transition; turn; unbalance; underground; unevenness; unicorn; unorthodoxy; upheaval; variability; variance; variation; variegation; variety; vary; versatility; wavering; whole; withdrawal; worsening; wreath