How to Use define in a Sentence

define

verb

• That fence defines the far edge of the property.
• She believes that success should be defined in terms of health and happiness.
• The government study seeks to define urban poverty.
• Her book aims to define acceptable social behavior.
• Staff did not want her life to be defined by tragedy.
  — Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
• Your brand is not defined by your lineup.
  — Sunita Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Thank you for defining so many of the movies of my childhood.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• No law defined the rights of people who were no longer slaves.
  — Martha S. Jones, Time, 9 July 2018
• The shift is in how niceness is defined.
  — Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2026
• Just you and the freedom to define the day on your own terms.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2026
• Her mother used to tell her that the event wouldn’t define them.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
• Goody was at the frontier of this new genre and helped to define it.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Where are you supposed to find the time to define these three pieces?
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• Zonda defines a home project as one with five or more homes for sale.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
• For me, that was a big, defining question to bring to the group.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• First, know that your first job out of college won’t define you.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
• Johnson has one of the jobs that might, with luck, come to define our era.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
• Someone who defines how it’s done.
  — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
• The lines are just like foul lines on a baseball field, defining the field of play.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 7 June 2019
• And the remix, despite its high-highs, has been defined by its low-lows.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
• For better or worse, this fight would come to define him in the last years of his life.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 27 June 2020
• Her connection to the city is a large part of what defines her.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
• At the heart of the debate has always been how to define open space.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• The drought that really defined the night came late in the half.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Has the injury cast a shadow on the game that once defined him?
  — Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
• The need to fight corruption is clear, but so is the need to define it.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 5 Oct. 2021
• Cheyenne Woods has always had to define her place in the pro golf world.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• Patrizia to life in the three decades that span the film and define her story.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2021
• Some of the many factors that help define prices at the pump are more mundane.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• The defining factor will once again be their salary limit.
  — James McNicholas, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026