Example sentences for: receptive

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

  • If you are receptive to the ideas of other people about politics and policy, you will find some people receptive to yours.

  • Board of Regents, the paper reports that the regents are "receptive" to the idea.

  • A story argues that Russia has never been "less imperialist, less militarized, less threatening to its neighbors and the world, and more receptive to Western ideals and practices than it is in 1998."

  • much of the population, young and old, is receptive to neo-Nazi ideas, sympathetic to such views, and often tacitly endorsing violence against the heterodox."

  • When her cardiologist husband (Martin Donovan) leaves her, Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) goes out into the world, her pain making her receptive to everything and everyone--from the elevator man (Danny DeVito) who returns her friendship with uninvited amorousness to the torch singer (Queen Latifah) who takes her to after-hours clubs, where she dances ecstatically with young women.


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