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How to use perceptible in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective, noun

Perceptible means able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned. Example: “Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.”

Examples of perceptible by meaning

adjectiveAble to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.

  • Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.

More sentences with perceptible

  • Unlike chimpanzees, whose females have bright red swollen buttocks when ovulating, females in humans evolved to have concealed ovulation, and do not have any perceptible signs that indicate their fertility.From the entry concealed ovulation
  • Black earnings decrease to the extent that one has a perceptible “blaccent.”2020 July 21, John McWhorter, “The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry blaccent
  • Felix tapped the rebellious biceps, soothing it with a barely perceptible touch.2014, David Grossman, The Zigzag Kid. From the entry bullneck
  • It is the mind that says that ‘I’ is not perceptible.2011, Michael Gluckman, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive: A Guide to the Source of Your Wisdom and Joy, Light Up Your Life, →ISBN. From the entry i
  • Olson sprints across the stage, only to chicken out, performing a barely perceptible, hiccuplike jump.2007 April 21, Gia Kourlas, “Worldly Lights and Darks Versus Childhood Ups and Downs”, in New York Times. From the entry hiccuplike
  • Chesterton, you did a take that was perceptible to one with my trained eye.1991, William Shatner, [Ron Goulart], TekLords, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry take
  • Whyever they began, there was no perceptible wolf at their door.1975, Steven Polgar, Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, page 74. From the entry whyever
  • With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short.1901, Isaac Kahn Friedman, By bread alone. From the entry dulciloquy
  • UNE is also very smartly made, polished, captivating, and cohesive, with no perceptible cinematic hamburger helper; there are no wasted words.2025 May 26, The New America, The New America 2012-Current, page 43. From the entry hamburger helper
  • Who is it that says that ‘I’ is not perceptible?2011, Michael Gluckman, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive: A Guide to the Source of Your Wisdom and Joy, Light Up Your Life, →ISBN. From the entry i
  • When at length he released the left hand it seemed for an almost perceptible moment that the action hung.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry action
  • The sea was gradually rising, a swell perceptible, and the ship bumping with increasing thuds against these rolling spur-projecting dangers.1916, Captain Gerald S. Doorly, The Voyages of the Morning. From the entry hummocked
  • True reality is subetheric and not perceptible through our etheric senses, though we get hints of synchronicities (apparent coincidences mediated by nonlocal communication).2016, Dennis J. Parizek, Everyverse RPG Paranormality. From the entry subetheric
  • It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage.2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat. From the entry nerveway
  • In the section "Dios - Tinieblas" his thoughts turn about God the Eternal Father, the superbrilliant invisible sun, perceptible only as Dionysian divine darkness.1960, Hispanic Review, Department of Romance Languages of the University of Pennsylvania, page 30. From the entry superbrilliant
  • In addition to having the barely perceptible but definitely present scummy vibe of an early 20th-century schmatte business, it was like the ultimate perversion of the male literary impulse.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry shmatte
  • The point of view is very engaging, and the highheartedness with which he writes gives the verses a “go” that is very perceptible in reading them.1902, The Book Buyer - Volume 24, page 151. From the entry highheartedness

Meaning of perceptible

  1. adjective Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
  2. noun Anything that can be perceived.

Full definition of perceptible

Questions about perceptible in a sentence

How do you use perceptible in a sentence?
Perceptible is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.”
What is a short sentence with perceptible?
“Who is it that says that ‘I’ is not perceptible?”
What does perceptible mean?
Perceptible means able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.

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