The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discourse of Socrates and his followers.
The campaign was highly negative in tone; each candidate tried to discredit the other.
The police noticed some discrepancies in his description of the crime and did not believe him.
The universe is composed of discrete bodies.
Use your discretion in this matter and do not discuss it with anyone.
They feared he lacked sufficient discrimination to judge complex works of modern art.
They were annoyed and bored by her discursive remarks.
You make enemies of all you disdain.
Before the passengers could disembark, they had to pick up their passports from the ship's purser.
The imposition if the poll tax effectively disenfranchised poor Southern blacks, who lost their right to vote.
A standard movie routine involves the hero's desperate attempt to disengage a railroad car from a moving train.
An ugly frown disfigured his normally pleasant face.
Unwilling to disgorge the cash he had stolen from the pension fund, the embezzler tried to run away.
The passengers were disgruntled by the numerous delays.
His failure to pass the bar exam disheartened him.
Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.
Some mornings I feel a great disinclination to get out of bed.
Although he was young, his remarks indicated that he was disingenous.
They disinterred the body and held an autopsy.
The only disinterested person in the room was the judge.
His remarks were so disjointed that we could not follow his reasoning.
Thrusting her fist up under the choking man's lower ribs, Margaret used the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the food caught in this throat.
When the show closed, they dismantled the scenery before restoring it.
When the Austrian Empire was dismembered, several new countries were established.
Believing in John's love for her, she dismissed the notion that he might be unfaithful.
Do not disparage anyone's contribution; these little gifts add up to large sums.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to organize these disparate elements into a coherent whole.
The disparity in their ages made no difference at all.
In a dispassionate analysis of the problem, he carefully examined the causes of the conflict and proceeded to suggest suitable remedies.
Young Napoleon defeated the enemy with all possible dispatch; he then sent a dispatch to headquarters, informing his commander of the great victory.
The bright sunlight eventually dispelled the morning mist.
The police fired tear gas into crowd to disperse the protesters.
The coach used all the tricks at his command to buoy up the enthusiasm of his team, which I had become dispirited at the loss of the star player.
The popularity of Florida as a winter resort is constantly increasing; each year, thousands more disport themselves at Miami and Palm Beach.
People avoided discussing contemporary problems with him because of his disputatious manner.
In his disquisition, he outlined the steps he had taken in reaching his conclusions.
The dissection of frogs on the laboratory is particularly unpleasant to some students.
Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew there not to dance but to meet girls.
The invention of the radio helped propagandists to disseminate their favorite doctrines very easily.
In a landmark Supreme Court decision, Justice Marshall dissented from the majority opinion.
In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is frequently required to prepare a dissertation on some scholarly subject.
In the purge that followed the student demonstrations at Tianamen Square, the government hunted down the dissident students and their supporters.
She tried to dissimulate her grief by her exuberant attitude.
The young man quickly dissipated his inheritance and was soon broke.
The profligacy and dissolution of life in Caligula's Rome appall some historians.
Some contemporary musicians deliberately use dissonance to achieve certain effects.
He could not dissuade his friend from joining the conspirators.
His distant greeting made me feel unwelcome from the start.
I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.
A moonshiner distills mash into whiskey; an epigrammatist distills thoughts into quips.
It is difficult to believe the newspaper accounts of this event because of the distortions and exaggerations of the reporters.
Because of his concentration on the problem, the professor often appeared distrait and unconcerned about routine.
The distraught parents frantically searched the ravine for their lost child.
A farmer cannot neglect his diurnal tasks at any time; cows, for example, must be milked regularly.
Although world famous as a diva, she did not indulge in fits of temerament.
The spokes of the wheel diverge from the hub.
The two witnesses presented the jury with remarkably divergent accounts of the same epipode.
There are diverse ways of approaching this problem.
After studying for several hours, he needed a diversion from work.
The diversity of colleges in this country indicates that many levels of ability are being served.
He was divested of his power to act and could no longer govern.
Nothing infuriated Tom more than Aunt Polly's ability to divine when he was not telling the truth.
I will not tell you this news because I am sure you will divulge it prematurely.
As docile as he seems today, that old lion was once a ferocious, snarling beast.
The case of Smith v. Jones was entered in the docket for July 15.
Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the repressive response of the doctrinaire hard-liners crushed his dreams of democracy.
She kept all the receipts from her business trip in order to document her expenses for the firm.
Although he is not as yet a doddering and senile old man, his ideas and opinions no longer can merit the respect we gave them years ago.
A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady.
Les Miserables tells of Inspector Javert's long, dogged pursuit of the criminal Jean Valjean.
Although we find occasional snatches of genuine poetry in her work, most of her writing is mere doggerel.
Do not be so dogmatic about that statement; it can be easily refuted.
Once the excitement of meeting her deadline was over, she found herself in the doldrums.
He found the dolorous lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.
I thought I was talking to a mature audience; instead, I find myself addressing a pack of dolts.
Althoughhis legal domicile was in New York City, his work kept him away from his residence for many years.
Students prefer teachers who guide, not ones who domineer.
When Clark Kent had to don his Superman outfit, he changed clothes in a convenient phone booth.
Sometimes dormant talents in our friends surprise those of us who never realize how gifted our acquaintances really are.
In remodeling the attic into a bedroom, we decided that we needed to put in dormers to provide sufficient ventilation for the new room.
A shark may be identified by its dorsal fin, which projects above the surface of the ocean.
Ordered by J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the senator, the FBI compiled a complete dossier.
In his dotage, the old man bored us with long tales of events in his childhood.
Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers dote on the littel rascals, too.
The man was dour abd taciturn.
They doused each other with hoses and balloons.
She tried to change her dowdy image by buying a fashionable new wardrobe.
Cheerful and optimistic by nature, Beth was never downcast despite the difficulties she faced.
The Dutch woman's drab winter coat contrasted with the distinctive, colorful native costume she wore beneath it.
David poured the wine carefully to avoid stirring up the dregs.
He was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining.
Content to let his wife support him, the would-be writer was in reality nothing but a drone.
On a gorgeous day, who wants to be stuck in a classroom listening to the teacher drone?
Many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the dross.
Cinderella's fairy godmother rescued her from a life of drudgery.
He has the dubious distinction of being the lowest man in his class.
Copper wire has many industrial uses because of its extreme ductility.
The dulcet sounds of the birds at dawn were soon drowned out by the roar of traffic passing our motel.
While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
People were shocked and dismayed when they learned of his duplicity in this affair, as he had always seemed honest and straightforward.
