distinctive look

collocation in English

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distinctive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/us
/dɪˈstɪŋk.tɪv/
Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from ...
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look
noun
uk
/lʊk/us
/lʊk/
the act of looking at someone ...
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(Definition ofdistinctiveandlookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The schools became known by thedistinctivelookof the long unstructured blue wool gown worn by their young and adolescent inhabitants.
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Frontier used wildlife photography on the vertical stabilizers and winglets of the aircraft to produce adistinctivelook.
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Polished plaster itself tends to consist of slaked lime, marble dust, and/or marble chips (which give each plaster itsdistinctivelook).
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Between each of these buildings is grouping of four concrete spires which gives the campus itsdistinctivelook.
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It has an innovative anddistinctivelookbecause at the bottom are two protruding blocks used as part of the building.
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The local millstone grit gives many of the buildings adistinctivelook.
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Hisdistinctivelookwas enhanced using special makeup.
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The airline quickly won a reputation for its quality of service, punctuality anddistinctivelook.
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A red adhesive strip ran through the length of the cars at the middle, giving it adistinctivelook.
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There are numerous old houses with grand balconies on all floors, giving the city adistinctivelook.
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In order to tell the three stories apart, he adopted adistinctivelookfor each.
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The trees bear soft, short needles and have adistinctivelookin that the branches seem to push out from folds in the trunk.
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Until then, stirrup socks had been an integral part of the traditional baseball uniform, giving them adistinctivelook.
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Because they were hand-drawn, his maps and graphics have adistinctivelookto them, unique to his hand.
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However, due to thedistinctivelookand large size of the whale, watching is increasingly popular.
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This gave the hospital itsdistinctivelook, with its buildings arranged in a number of quadrants.
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We'd talk about the colours and fabrics to achieve hisdistinctivelook.
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Her images of sharply-dressed young musicians, sometimes clowning but more often skulking in naturally beautiful settings created an unusual anddistinctivelook.
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He uses gray sandstone as temper, which gives his pottery adistinctivelook.
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The panels were often composed of two or more different contrasting colors to give them a novel anddistinctivelook.
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