How to Use discriminating in a Sentence

discriminating

adjective
  • Be a discriminating buyer, but don't waste too much time dithering over the details.
    — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2019
  • So again, even with prompting, the habitual users were far less discriminating.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Here are five must-have features for every luxury automobile that aims to please even the most discriminating owner.
    — Brian Sodoma, azcentral, 16 Mar. 2018
  • In terms of larval/caterpillar host plants, butterflies are more discriminating.
    — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2021
  • With each piece containing 20mg of Delta-8, this product is sure to please even the most discriminating user.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023
  • Sound quality matters less, although my 7-year-old has become more discriminating.
    — Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The antibodies are therefore more discriminating, less likely to fire in error—to be triggered by a criminal cousin.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Presumably, the business of surviving by eating what the forest has to offer requires a more discriminating use of the nostrils than is needed for farming.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Still, if Biden pulls through, voters can expect a much more discriminating debate about the economic impact of his policies than there has been these last four years about Trump’s.
    — David Banks, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • All this suggests that colleges and financial-aid programs ought to be more discriminating, yet progressives are calling for less-rigorous student vetting.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Either Fring knows about Lalo’s super discriminating nostrils or there is a spy in the House of Salamanca.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Consumers have become more discriminating, and are passing on some higher-price purchases while seeking out cheaper alternatives.
    — Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • As the discriminator becomes more discriminating, the generative network gets trained to make photos that look more and more realistic.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The legion of followers the NFL has always assumed to be permanent is becoming more discriminating with its leisure time.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Small farmers can serve more discriminating customers while big farms provide product for more cost-conscious consumers, Kogan and DeAngelo say.
    — Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Small farmers can serve more discriminating customers while big farms provide product for more cost-conscious consumers, Kogan and DeAngelo say.
    — Brad Branan and Monica Vaughn, sacbee, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Special effects were progressing with varying results, but intelligent storytelling was leading the charge as viewers became more discriminating.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • However, Matabele ants may have a more discriminating brain and can tell if the wound requires treatment due to specific changes in the chemical profile of an infected wound versus an uninfected wound.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Insurers, alerted to the problem and granted permission to respond, grew more discriminating in their underwriting and more probing in their investigations.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But this would require a more discriminating choice of clients, to avoid aiding wars like Saudi Arabia’s brutal campaign in Yemen or Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza.
    — William Hartung, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Wrightsman overcame childhood illness to become a World War I aviator, a crack polo player, and an avaricious but discriminating collector.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2019
  • Instead of each camp championing its own view and demolishing others, researchers will collaborate and agree to publish in advance how discriminating experiments might be conducted — and then respect the outcomes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Aimed at a more discriminating class of audio listeners, the AE-9 features such audiophile features as replaceable operational amplifiers, or opamps, to tune the flavor of sound from the card.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 8 Dec. 2018
  • Never restricted by arbitrary price points or dealer demands, Wilson hand-built the best speakers from his workshop in Provo, Utah, for the most discriminating audio enthusiasts in the world.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Housing just 110 guests in 54 suites, Corinthian is selected by a discriminating guest list seeking an extraordinary experience aboard the largest sailing yacht in the world.
    — Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • ExhaleWell specializes in producing high-quality hemp products, and their exclusive delta-8 collection was developed especially to satisfy the discriminating tastes of its customers.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In a related paper published in the same issue of Nature Fratzl acknowledges the sensor’s impressive level of sensitivity but calls for a more discriminating device that can better distinguish the most important vibrations from distracting noise.
    — Joshua A. Krisch, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2014
  • Turning Selectivity Into Strategy A range of more discriminating strategies have been explored, including tweaking the shape and timing of electrical pulses and using multi-contact electrodes to maneuver currents in specific directions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025

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