Example sentences for: sensibilities

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

  • Movies are pitched to teen-age sensibilities because only teen-agers go to movies again and again and again.

  • Our sensibilities are conditioned by our history.

  • British writers (among whom I number journalists, who, after all, probably write more English than most people) sometimes go to great lengths to avoid using the subjunctive, resulting in writing that jars what poor sensibilities might remain to Americans:

  • An article argues that the Princess Di hoopla finally brought American emotional sensibilities (i.e.

  • Those who like the show call it "immensely enjoyable" (Jess Cagle, Entertainment Weekly ) and say it "takes a new bead on the familiar old target and hits the bull's-eye with ease" (Richard Zoglin, Time ). Those who don't like it say that the new version (expurgated of several un-PC songs) is an uneasy mix of '40s and '90s sensibilities and falls flat.


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