PERCEPTIBLE in a Sentence

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140 example sentences for PERCEPTIBLE, such as:

1. Vronsky gave a hardly perceptible shrug.
2. Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
3. Drugs can alter your perception of reality.
4. Pasternak gave him a barely perceptible smile.
5. His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERCEPTIBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perceptible
 a.  capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  "I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  Colonel Brandon's partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor, when it ceased to be noticed by them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  Stepan Arkadyevitch gave a scarcely perceptible smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
6  Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had long known that Levin was in love with his sister-in-law, Kitty, gave a hardly perceptible smile, and his eyes sparkled merrily.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  Even the Tatar, uncorking the bottle and pouring the sparkling wine into the delicate glasses, glanced at Stepan Arkadyevitch, and settled his white cravat with a perceptible smile of satisfaction.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
8  Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
9  With a flying, feminine glance she scanned her attire, and made a movement of her head, hardly perceptible, but understood by Kitty, signifying approval of her dress and her looks.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
10  Looking down at her he saw her face in profile, and from the scarcely perceptible quiver of her lips and eyelashes he knew she was aware of his eyes upon her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
11  The smile was faint, scarcely perceptible, and in spite of the smile the stern expression of the eyes was unchanged.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
12  Vronsky gave a hardly perceptible shrug.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 32
13  Anna gave a just perceptible smile, but made no answer.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
14  As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
15  He saw a scarcely perceptible tremor cross her face, and without knowing what he did he stooped his head and kissed the bit of stuff in his hold.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The difference is scarcely perceptible to the average reader.
2  The price increase has had no perceptible effect on sales.
3  Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
4  There was a barely perceptible movement in his right arm.
5  His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.
6  Pasternak gave him a barely perceptible smile.
7  His analysis of the problem showed great perception.
8  We have to change the public's perception that money is being wasted.
9  My perception of the problem is quite different.
10  Drugs can alter your perception of reality.
11  Let's keep things to reality, and CNN's supposition for why this drop in perception is certainly not reality.
12  Edmund Wilson's perception gave him an unparalleled understanding of American literature and life.
13  Luke has techniques of placing images in sculptural, architectural and natural environments, distorting the viewers' perception of time and space.
14  This perception was exploited by Zeno in one of his famous paradoxes.
15  He is interested in how our perceptions of death affect the way we live.