How to Use delineation in a Sentence

delineation

noun
  • So that may very well serve as a line of delineation in this discussion.
    — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Or the delineation of how money raised from poll taxes must be spent.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2022
  • By now, there has become a clear delineation of the elite of the East.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Trump wants to make a very clear delineation between him and his campaign.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • Zitt was even less precious about a delineation between the two.
    — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Those wetland delineations and work the feds would cover would be shifting to the state.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • The end of Breaking Bad was very much a bright line, a clear delineation.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There’s a clear delineation between what has come before, and what is coming up.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But there is no agreement on the number and delineation of the sub-races, or even of the major races.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
  • First, there’s a clear delineation between the top seven and bottom four.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Yehoshua on the other hand, sees the world through a military lens where there is a clear delineation of right and wrong.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 10 July 2017
  • How clear is the delineation between you and the fictional version of you on screen?
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • There’s a big delineation between the upstairs and downstairs cast.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
  • The universe of wine has a tidy delineation—the Old World and the New.
    — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The name should also help dealers and customers with some delineation in the showroom.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Without the delineation of years, time would become an expanse of open water.
    — Kathleen Rooney, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2021
  • That wasn’t a clear enough delineation between his private and public life, the watchdog found.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • There is a clear delineation between the top four, which are among the national elite, and the rest of the conference.
    — Tim Booth, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
  • These people knocked the barriers down and helped with delineation and absorbed the learning costs.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This delineation overturned the yellow card for a straight red, sending the centerback off the field with a full half left to play.
    — Julia Poe, Pro Soccer USA, 4 July 2019
  • Ghosts interfere with our sense of time, confusing the delineation between now and then.
    — Reginald Dwayne Betts Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Rowan Ricardo Phillips Michael Paterniti Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • But for the most part, the delineation is remarkably consistent.
    — Aradhna Krishna, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
  • My Charley did not opt for a flame-out on live television, or even a private delineation of my failings as a friend.
    — Laura Lippman, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But in the end, where is the delineation between the work that needs to be done by people and what can be done by AI?
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Typically that is a delineation for a team forecast to at least make it to the conference finals.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The delineation of duties in a sports-broadcasting booth hews to a famous formula.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Now the resource delineation work has shifted to the deeper sediments, Eden said.
    — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2019
  • My dad immigrated here from Guatemala, and is very [machista], so there where very clear delineations of gender roles in our household.
    — Kelsey Castañon, refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
  • Each yearly delineation on the sequoia’s surface is a small part of a far grander story that ties together all of life on Earth.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 10 June 2019
  • Her health, her family, her privacy, and a delineation between her pop star ego— her alter ego, to name her past album—and her own self.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026

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