Example sentences for: perceiving

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

  • He enrolled at the Dallas Conservatory of Music, and sang Gilbert and Sullivan in New York City opera houses before perceiving that there was a market in hillbilly songs.

  • We found wide variation among hospitals in both the proportion of staff expressing a willingness to be immunized and the proportion perceiving a threat of bioterrorist attack.

  • Are only Westerners capable of perceiving their rational self-interest and acting on it?

  • In bivariate analyses, one's opinion of the risk of a smallpox attack was strongly associated with willingness or desire to be immunized (p < .0001), with 70% of those perceiving an intermediate-high risk of attack and 66% of those without an opinion about the risk being inclined toward vaccination, compared to 47% of those seeing the risk as low (Table 1).

  • It is so heavily scored that it looks nearly sculptural, and it is covered with dots that look like smallpox--an essay in the catalogue cites Freud, by way of Gilles Deleuze, on the "schizophrenic aptitude for perceiving the surface and skin as if it were pierced with an infinite number of little holes."


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