discern between in English

make a distinction between two or more things

Use "discern between" in a sentence

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1. He can discern between right and wrong.

2. The man couldn't discern between right and wrong.

3. Members can discern between schemes that are flashy and fleeting and those refinements that are uplifting and enduring.

4. As students study accounts of false teachers in the Book of Mormon, they will learn to discern between the truths of the gospel and the false concepts of the world.

5. (2 Samuel 23:1, 3, 4) Solomon, David’s son and successor, apparently got the point, for he requested that Jehovah grant him “an obedient heart” and the ability “to discern between good and bad.”

6. “Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.”—Ellen G