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.
• The rest of my hair looked shiny, defined, and healthy.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 3 Sep. 2019
• For me, that was a big, defining question to bring to the group.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• 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
• Thank you for defining so many of the movies of my childhood.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• Read more on the Meet the Press Blog about the ads that define Tuesday’s top races.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 21 June 2022
• At the heart of the debate has always been how to define open space.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Patrizia to life in the three decades that span the film and define her story.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2021
• The need to fight corruption is clear, but so is the need to define it.
  — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 5 Oct. 2021
• Johnson has one of the jobs that might, with luck, come to define our era.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
• This was the first year the survey asked the questions, which didn’t define those terms.
  — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• Her mother used to tell her that the event wouldn’t define them.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
• John Lennon once said that your voice defines rock and roll.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• And it’s used by philosophers a lot to define a good life.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
• Cheyenne Woods has always had to define her place in the pro golf world.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• The poll doesn't define what a civil war would look like.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The lines are just like foul lines on a baseball field, defining the field of play.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 7 June 2019
• Some of the many factors that help define prices at the pump are more mundane.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• What was still to define was the structure of the leadership.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• And lastly, define what getting back on track means for you in the short term and the longer term.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 24 Jan. 2024
• To define and explain terms: Very rare does not mean blue and a bit chilly.
  — Mimi Sheraton, Bon Appetit, 21 Aug. 2017
• All told, this class could be the one that defines the coach’s legacy at Texas.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Dec. 2017
• The act of defining truth becomes something the reader has to find out.
  — Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• The line defines short cruises as ranging from four to six nights and mid-length sailings as seven to nine nights, while longer cruises are 10 or more nights.
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
• Material in low-Earth orbit, defined as less than 200km from Earth, is intended to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up.
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2025