Examples of trait in a Sentence
This dog breed has a number of desirable traits.
honesty is one of her defining traits
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If some cat owners are more open or more prone to worry than dog owners, these personality traits could explain why cat people donated more money more frequently.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
In magnifying their most high-spirited traits, 5SOS also intensified the tension, unease, and anxieties that built up beneath the surface.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Body types, hair types, identifiably cultural features, and other cosmetic and aesthetic traits that deviate from white, patriarchal beauty standards are not accurately accounted for.
—Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
In the new commercial for the soup lineup, Padalecki and Czuchry promoted the different soups with a play on their characters' personality traits.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
In magnifying their most high-spirited traits, 5SOS also intensified the tension, unease, and anxieties that built up beneath the surface.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Body types, hair types, identifiably cultural features, and other cosmetic and aesthetic traits that deviate from white, patriarchal beauty standards are not accurately accounted for.
—Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
In the new commercial for the soup lineup, Padalecki and Czuchry promoted the different soups with a play on their characters' personality traits.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Trait.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trait. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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trait
noun1
: a quality that sets one person or thing off from another : peculiarity sense 2
curiosity is one of her notable traits
2
: an inherited characteristic
dominant and recessive traits
Etymology
from early French trait "the act of pulling," from Latin tractus, past participle of trahere "to pull, drag" — related to trace entry 1, trace entry 3
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