Example sentences for: perceptible

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

  • 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.

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

  • One can, even if there is a perceptible difference between the benign OED definition a mischievous or frolicsome youth and the Australian a young urban rough.

  • 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.

  • Finally, the circular arrangement of hues also implies that it is possible to mix two ends of the perceptible spectrum to produce a sensation that is not contained in the spectrum: for humans, mixing violet with red light will produce purple, a sensation that has no equivalent in the visual spectrum; a similar unique percept can be produced by facing bees with a mixture of UV and green light [5,17].


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