Example sentences for: senses

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

  • Since the translator may not “substitute his own modern images for the old ones” how can the shepherd metaphor retain its old-fashioned pastoral simplicity when its sense and the reader's senses are jarred out of the authentic Bible-time setting and are forced into a frame of the “language we use today”?

  • First, many are still used in their own right, but in trivialized senses: little red wagons for kids, go-carts and golf carts and shopping carts (all more than two-wheeled, though, called shopping trolleys in Britain), Olympic bobsleds and sleds for coasting down hills, dune buggies for zooming around beaches, and even baby carriages and baby buggies .

  • (To confuse eavesdroppers the active and passive senses are often interchanged; thus, “Who are you using?”

  • There were also some other parts of speech: one definition for the preposition and three for the verb (participial) senses.

  • back from the outskirts along narrow lanes of sun-warmed brick emerging into Il Campo senses the spreading plaza's vast expanse widen around him


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