IMPERCEPTIBLE in a Sentence

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1. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement.
2. She heard a faint, almost imperceptible cry.
3. Every flight should be an imperceptible slipping away.
4. Andrea took the pen with an imperceptible smile and began.
5. The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPERCEPTIBLE
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imperceptible
 a.  impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  From where he sat he made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent movement, which enlarged the opening a little.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  Madeleine made an imperceptible movement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
4  The husband replied by that imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
5  Every flight should be an imperceptible slipping away.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C...
6  The beautiful child understood nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ...
7  These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the surface.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
8  One of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of white between.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
9  A few stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
10  A second smile, almost imperceptible, stole over the rosy lips of the pretty young woman.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
11  It was almost imperceptible motions of his eyes, fingers placed upon the lips, little assassinating smiles, which really did assassinate the disdained beauty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
12  They had learned to distinguish the almost imperceptible sound of his footsteps as he descended towards their dungeons, and happily, never failed of being prepared for his coming.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
13  An imperceptible smile of triumph was expressed on the lips of the procureur.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
14  He offered his hand to the baroness, who, descending, took it with a peculiarity of manner imperceptible to every one but Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 62. Ghosts.
15  Andrea took the pen with an imperceptible smile and began.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
Example Sentence:
1  She heard a faint, almost imperceptible cry.
2  The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.
3  Such changes are imperceptible to even the best-trained eye.
4  Now I feel by imperceptible signs, which I cannot yet interpret but will later, that his defiance is about to thaw.
5  Fortunately, the stain on the blouse was imperceptible after the blouse had gone through the wash.