Example sentences for: perceptive

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

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

  • De Cordova, Henderson, Sprott, and Weigle have conducted the most perceptive and sensitive writing on the Penitentes.

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

  • His lively, friendly, perceptive, well-written column appeared several times under the heading he chose, VERBUM SAP.

  • It was a perceptive observation.


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