Example sentences for: perceives

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

  • Only twenty years ago did those now ubiquitous and--depending on how one perceives them-- exuberantly eloquent or infuriatingly laconic logos begin to appear on highway and street signs; in terminals (do kilted Scots or slacks-clad women ever end up in the wrong lavatories?); computer screen displays; and instruction manuals for electr(on)ic gadgetry.

  • But in Kennedy's soul, where Hersh sees darkness, von Post, a stunning Swedish aristocrat, perceives only light.

  • When one's name is deliberately or even unconsciously misspelled, or when it is knowingly mispronounced, a person perceives it as a slap at his pride.

  • What we are really fighting about is a matter of epistemology, of how one perceives and understands the world.

  • But it must be said that space is at a premium in these expensive books, and if, say, a dozen citations are found for each of the spellings thickwitted and thick-witted , one can be sure that no lexicographer, thrifty of space, will display the variant, whichever he perceives that to be.


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