Example sentences for: perceptible

How can you use “perceptible” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The highest range on Crete, with several of its peaks breaking 2,000 m (5600 ft), there are no villages in its shadow because the mountains rise steeply with no perceptible foothills.

  • His absence of hands-on experience with our current criminal-justice system--his lack of feel for how it actually works--puts him at a perceptible disadvantage when seeking to strike this exquisitely delicate balance.

  • Her behavior was stupid and hurt a lot of people, but if the point here is to measure the size of her errors, they are barely perceptible next to those of the people who ruined her: a literary agent with profit and something akin to treason on her mind; a federal prosecutor who chose to hound and harass a citizen with overweening force and little justification; and journalists who cooperated by exposing every last detail of her private life.

  • As John Pike, director of the space policy project at the Federation of American Scientists, told Elizabeth Shogren of the Los Angeles Times : "The Earth is big and the weather is slow, so it's not like there is perceptible motion.

  • Sisler characterized a change in light extinction of one deciview as "a small but perceptible scenic change under many circumstances."


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