Mr. Shils cut a distinctive figure on the street.

I turned quickly and saw three different but distinctive figures darting in and out amongst the shadows.

Jesus, it's a full-scale coup, she thought, just as another distinctive figure stumbled around the front of the building.

At 6 ft 2 in he was a distinctive figure on the pitch with his "telescopic legs".

But along the way they began to turn themselves into distinctive figures.

But he was always a distinctive and solitary figure.

He was a distinctive figure, habitually wearing a black broad-brimmed hat and a cloak.

The first theme, introduced immediately at the beginning of the movement, is the very distinctive figure of a turn followed by an ascending scale.

A most distinctive figure; and someone whom I was likely to suspect from the outset.

At the end of the 1960s, Marie had become a rather distinctive figure in the French pop scene.