Sample Sentences forsentient (editor-reviewed)
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Pinocchio was a puppet that became sentient--a little boy.sentient = able to perceive and feel
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We'll want a sentient being there to monitor things and, as I understand it, he used to work there. (source)sentient = with human-like awareness and thoughtfulness
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Not murdering living, sentient beings with an independent genetic future. (source)
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I just mean, like, a baby isn't sentient, but a baby is still a person. (source)sentient = able to perceive and feel
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The Labyrinth is a malevolent sentient creation!† (source)
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Weren't we, as sentient beings, put upon the earth to be happy, in the brief time allotted to us?† (source)
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The Presger didn't care if a species was sentient or not, conscious or not, intelligent or not.† (source)
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Crystalline pins winked across its pale blue surface, so that it seemed to have some alarming sentience, like the eye of a blind man.† (source)
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It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insentient means not and reverses the meaning of sentient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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'Yes, Rose she said, like that again, and I stopped in running's midstride again though my body, blind unsentient barrow of deluded clay and breath, still advanced And bow I saw that what she held in that lax and negligent hand was the photograph, the picture of herself in its metal case which she had given him, held casual and forgotten against her flank as any interrupted pastime book.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsentient means not and reverses the meaning of sentient. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Our "semisentient" erg in the box there.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semisentient means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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Her voice trails off as the others listen sentiently.† (source)
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Male and female Glatun were nonsentient parasites that existed within a brood pouch on the Glatun sentient neuters.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsentient means not and reverses the meaning of sentient. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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Something about its curiosity gave it a sentient presence, full of doubt and wanting.† (source)
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Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate, so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own.† (source)
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Through all the steps of the years behind them, the steps down a course chosen in the courage of a single loyalty: their love of existence-chosen in the knowledge that nothing will be given, that one must make one's own desire and every shape of its fulfillment-through the steps of shaping metal, rails and motors-they had moved by the power of the thought that one remakes the earth for one's enjoyment, that man's spirit gives meaning to insentient matter by molding it to serve one's chosen goal.† (source)
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