Sample Sentences for
perceptible
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  • It's not the lifting and cleaning, the medicines and wipes, and the distant but somehow always perceptible smell of disinfectant.  (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime.  (source)
    perceptible = capable of being noticed
  • "I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance.  (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
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  • By and by, out of the stillness, little, scarcely perceptible noises began to emphasize themselves.  (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • Though the bitter cold did not abate, the daylight hours grew perceptibly longer.  (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.†  (source)
  • I can remember no symptom of affection on either side; and had anything of the kind been perceptible, you must be aware that ours is not a family on which it could be thrown away.  (source)
    perceptible = capable of being noticed
  • The ragged circle around him moved perceptibly closer.  (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.  (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • The jerks perceptibly diminished; as the sled gained momentum, he caught them up, till it was moving steadily along.  (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • Lucy's heart beat a trifle more audibly to the stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement.  (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
  • The wolf ran hard for fifty yards without gaining perceptibly on the fawn, then suddenly broke off the chase and trotted back to rejoin his fellows.  (source)
    perceptibly = noticeably
  • A book lay spread on the sill before her, and the scarcely perceptible wind fluttered its leaves at intervals.  (source)
    perceptible = noticeable
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