susceptible

in a sentence

This disease, Valley Fever, makes the body tired and susceptible to other infections.  (source) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

Dodgson had finally located a susceptible InGen employee earlier in the year.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

I haven't had a seizure in seven years, but the doctors tell me that I am "susceptible to seizure activity."  (source) Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007

"Five, four, three, two, one," he said. "Wake up, Mary. ... Some's much more susceptible than others. She's a piece of cake."  (source) David Almond, Clay, 2005

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) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

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) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1799

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

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) George Bernard Shaw, Man And Superman, 1903

Possibly, he postulated, it was "the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character unsusceptible of civilization."†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

"He is susceptible, our Colonel," thought Hercule Poirot to himself with some amusement.  (source) Agatha Christie, Murder On The Orient Express, 1934

It fell upon his ear with many tones of tenderness, that were not insusceptible of the new meaning.†  (source) Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, 1857

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) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

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) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922