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Definition

able to perceive and feel

Pinocchio was a puppet that became sentient—a little boy.

sentient = able to perceive and feel

sentient puppets on God's stage
We'll want a sentient being there to monitor things and, as I understand it, he used to work there.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

sentient = able to perceive and feel

It was stone, but it seemed sentient.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
When Master Bloomfield's amusements consist in injuring sentient creatures,' I answered, 'I think it my duty to interfere.
Bronte, Anne -- Agnes Grey
...she looked at the undusted nymph, as if she possibly had sentient ears.
James, Henry -- The American
If I could collect humanity into one sentient force, I would set my heel upon it without hesitation.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Malefactor
sentient of the intolerable load
a boy so sentient of his surroundings
If the corks were sentient we could imagine that they would consider these conditions to be permanent and assured.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Poison Belt
Like sentient things—even like the lords and ladies of creation sometimes—might have done much, but did nothing.
Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
The sun, on account of the mist, had a curious sentient, personal look, demanding the masculine pronoun for its adequate expression.
Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
Instantly the latter was transformed to a sentient creature, filled with pulsing life and alert energy.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Chessmen of Mars
Now it bound him with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence, blocking it from the world which to him had been a riot of action.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf

(Editor's note: 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.)

Weren't we, as sentient beings, put upon the earth to be happy, in the brief time allotted to us?
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
"Bella, I just" — he hesitated and then forced the words out — "I just beheaded and dismembered a sentient creature not twenty yards from you.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
As they turned a corner the flames chased them as though they were alive, sentient, intent upon killing them.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Not murdering living, sentient beings with an independent genetic future.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
"Sure spooky I say," observed Shady, sentiently.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
He was pure consciousness now .... a fleshless sentience suspended in the emptiness of a vast universe.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

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