Sample Sentences for
susceptible
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    Dodgson had finally located a susceptible InGen employee earlier in the year.  (source)
    susceptible = easily influenced
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    This disease, Valley Fever, makes the body tired and susceptible to other infections.  (source)
    susceptible = easily harmed when exposed
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    In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda.  (source)
    susceptible = easily influenced
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    "He is susceptible, our Colonel," thought Hercule Poirot to himself with some amusement.  (source)
    susceptible = easily influenced
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    And then, even as the might of the individual seemed to have been curbed, the Principle of Might had sprung up behind him in another shape—in the shape of collective might, of banded ferocity, of numerous armies insusceptible to individual laws.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insusceptible means not and reverses the meaning of susceptible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsusceptible means not and reverses the meaning of susceptible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all were returned to the incubators, where the buds began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and checked.  (source)
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    But here and there occurs a scrap of intensely insusceptible, intensely resistant material; and that stubborn scrap grapples with the current and will not let it through until it has made itself useful to you as those two vital qualities of literature, light and heat.†  (source)
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    Possibly, he postulated, it was "the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character unsusceptible of civilization."†  (source)
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    …and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there.  (source)
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    It fell upon his ear with many tones of tenderness, that were not insusceptible of the new meaning.†  (source)
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    I haven't had a seizure in seven years, but the doctors tell me that I am "susceptible to seizure activity."  (source)
    susceptible = easily influenced or harmed by
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    Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.†  (source)
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