How to Use difference in a Sentence

difference

noun

• She knows the difference between right and wrong.
• There's a big difference in price.
• There's no difference between the two houses. They look exactly the same.
• There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• The primary differences are the dates payments are issued and the size of the payments.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
• The difference is that nature put the quail there, while human beings put the cats there.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The prosthetic for the nose was like a silk curtain; that’s about the difference between my nose and his nose.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• The biggest difference between Lawrence’s NYC looks and this summer ’fit is, well, the fit.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 20 July 2023
• What is the difference between a mosquito hawk and a crane fly?
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
• That’s because of the stress caused by the difference in air pressure inside and outside a plane.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Your Questions, Answered What is the difference between a wall light and a sconce?
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2023
• Advertisement Many have likened the shock to that of the war in 1973, but with crucial differences.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• That difference in views has been on full display in Beijing, even as the two sides return to the table to restart talks.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 19 July 2023
• That key difference meant that when flames crossed the road this time, the fire rampaged through a town still teeming with residents and tourists.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The base of the modern Rachel cut consists of many layers, and the differences in the lengths of the strands are particularly extreme around the face.
  — Melanie Paukner, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2023
• For a singer to commit himself to learning the difference is a success that the rest of us can only dream of knowing.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• His return could be the difference in Houston's first home playoff game in four years.
  — Ayrton Ostly, The Courier-Journal, 12 Jan. 2024
• Sleep debt: the difference between the amount of sleep a person needs and the actual amount of time spent sleeping, when the amount needed exceeds the time slept.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• The owner of the house graciously reduced the price to that for three couples and refunded the difference (less than one-fourth of the total cost).
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• What is the difference between a penumbral and a total lunar eclipse?
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
• That puts the breakeven rate—the difference between the two yields, which serves as a market proxy for what inflation will average over the next decade—at 2.3%.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023
• Anyone with a flight scheduled to leave through Jan. 13 and can travel through Jan. 20 can change their flight without a fare difference.
  — The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2024
• That may be the difference between being able to reproduce or not.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
• Half of the studies reviewed by the group showed that officers with cameras tend to use force less often, but the rest of the studies showed no difference.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• And most voters are not going to understand the differences about the things that are happening.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• But the differences are so much bigger than just travel demands.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• The difference then is the Wolf Pack followed up with an 8-5 season and the first of four straight bowl appearances while the Rams are still struggling to get it together.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
• The biggest difference for me now is that the action should be realistic.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• Despite a slight difference in spelling, Brotman shares the same name with the classic character Ariel.
  — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
• You may be charged a change fee, cancellation fee or fare difference for future travel depending on the terms of your original ticket.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024