Example sentences for: perceptive

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

  • It was a perceptive observation.

  • The book itself is "serious, perceptive, skirting the edges of hilarity and terror."

  • The eighteen essays and extracts and the perceptive introduction reveal the range and depth of the debate about feminism and language.

  • American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.

  • Joining the ranks of companies that ought to have the resources required to employ people (especially in advertising agencies) who are reasonably perceptive about language but appear to have lost whatever touch they might have had is the British firm, Honeywell Bull.


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