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.

  • It's a tough position for New Yorkers (as many of you are) to be put in--invited to joke about scents and sensibilities.

  • Prudie has always felt there is something a little nutty about people who are able to ignore an extreme mess and the sensibilities of others.

  • The descendants of the sourdoughs (four of whom, early this century, first one of Mount McKinley's two 20,000-foot peaks, dragging with them a pine pole, an oversized American flag, and a bag of stale doughnuts) are, of course, less refined in their sensibilities.

  • President Bush approved military plans to attack Afghanistan in meetings with Central Command's General Franks and other advisers on September 21 and October 2. Originally titled "Infinite Justice," the operation's code word was changed-to avoid the sensibilities of Muslims who associate the power of infinite justice with God alone-to the operational name still used for operations in Afghanistan:"Enduring Freedom."


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