How to Use differentiate in a Sentence

differentiate

verb
  • The only thing that differentiates the twins is the color of their eyes.
  • The league just has to do its best to differentiate between the good stuff and the bad stuff.
    Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2017
  • But the tough part for them on the stage is to differentiate themselves from each other.
    Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • The department store chain is putting the idea to work to help differentiate its stores.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 July 2019
  • That’s part of what differentiates us from other parts of the state.
    Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • There are a few other things that differentiate this version of the game.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • There’s just not much to differentiate them, and that’s a good thing.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The i and j, hard to differentiate in some fonts, feature unique crowns.
    Josh Wagner, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In dogs there are no brain regions that fire to differentiate faces.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
  • And how does anybody differentiate at this point, with the backdrop of the world behind it?
    al, 2 Mar. 2021
  • As such, one of the chief ways to differentiate your company is on price.
    Cade Metz, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2015
  • And there are a few other bells and whistles that differentiate it still.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 31 Aug. 2021
  • This helps differentiate them from the rest of Jabra’s closed-style buds.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
  • More seats and more ways to differentiate value makes for a broad variety of price points.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • There were too many of them, though, with too little to differentiate them.
    The Economist, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Anything that would deter or differentiate from that is a risk for them.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Here are four ways to differentiate between a migraine and stroke.
    Janissa Delzo, SELF, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Stick to a budget that differentiates between needs and wants.
    Nerdwallet, oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Many spotted bass also have a rough patch of teeth on their tongues that can be used to differentiate them from largemouths.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Here’s how to differentiate them — and decide which one is right for you, or your recipe.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • My grandchildren will not be able to differentiate between this new wife and me.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 July 2021
  • The artist added a number to differentiate it from a song with a similar title from their former group.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • But as you age production slows, and the cells differentiate.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Whale songs can be used to differentiate between species.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • To them, colors may appear washed out and hard to differentiate.
    Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2021
  • That’s part of what differentiates our work from pure utopianism.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2017
  • In any case, here’s a graphic that differentiates the two.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But that’s hard to do if there isn’t a generic product in the first place, and the market is more differentiated.
    Angela Chen, The Verge, 21 Nov. 2018
  • Wells began to differentiate the types of hops used at craft breweries for different styles of beer.
    Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Musk is using them in part as a foil, a means of differentiating himself from those who came before.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023

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