be characteristic of
Example Sentences
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This too may be characteristic of a Dame, although pairing that with her unstuffy humor and refreshingly proletarian quick wit engendered in us a familiarity.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
She looked impossibly young for someone with her history, which she shared with a trusting openness I’ve found to be characteristic of people in recovery.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
This idea, which would suggest that Homo naledi was capable of ritual behaviour, met with controversy because such practices are thought by some to be characteristic of human modernity.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2017
A geological division into older highlands and younger lowland plains seems to be characteristic of all the terrestrial planets except Mercury.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Although I do not profess to be a competent critic of the law, a few words will explain the sense in which I take it to be characteristic of himself.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
