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
• Goody was at the frontier of this new genre and helped to define it.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• For me, that was a big, defining question to bring to the group.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Where are you supposed to find the time to define these three pieces?
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Her mother used to tell her that the event wouldn’t define them.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
• The poll doesn't define what a civil war would look like.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
• And it’s used by philosophers a lot to define a good life.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
• Some of the many factors that help define prices at the pump are more mundane.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Johnson has one of the jobs that might, with luck, come to define our era.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
• The act of defining truth becomes something the reader has to find out.
  — Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 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
• This was the first year the survey asked the questions, which didn’t define those terms.
  — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• John Lennon once said that your voice defines rock and roll.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 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
• Cheyenne Woods has always had to define her place in the pro golf world.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• No law defined the rights of people who were no longer slaves.
  — Martha S. Jones, Time, 9 July 2018
• The bill would also define social media in state law for the first time.
  — Brendan Farrington, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Cheek fillers have one goal: to define your cheekbones.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2019
• The worst things that have ever happened to us, don’t define us.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 9 June 2021
• Here’s a look at five of the on-court questions that will define this series.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 June 2021
• The night was an important look back at the music that defined this past year.
  — Lauren Ballantyne, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• That quote might define every side of the fight that happened in Roanoke.
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 2 May 2024