Sample sentences for RECEPTIVE

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Definition

open to arguments, ideas, or change

More rarely, receptive can mean that something is capable of receiving something else. In that instance, the thing that receives might be called a receptor as when referring to a molecule that receives and responds to a neurotransmitter.

Congress is receptive of the President's proposals.

She is receptive to reasonable arguments.
I'd like to give the speech to some receptive audiences before I try an audience that is more hostile to my proposals.
The tense, receptive, otherworldly faces of the soldiers were as real as if the presence of death had washed the canvasses with the glaze of truth.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
A quick blast of the UMG beam, carefully missing the hole at the center, had the area cut into a cylinder to accept the receptor collimator.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Now that I thought of it, she had been awfully receptive to that zinc.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
Something in Dexter was alert, receptive, at once.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams
My nerves have been shut down or the pain receptors in my brain turned off.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
Molly says it is finding a receptive audience to its bottom-up approach in each country.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
I was to keep ever before them the picture of a bright, passive, good-humored, receptive mass ever willing to accept their every scheme.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
The oxygen solution also contains an anaesthetic that deadens pain receptors.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
He says, The male organ of copulation becomes turgid and is inserted into the receptive female orifice.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
The American actress had never heard of him, but after being humiliated she was more receptive to sympathy than usual and ran over to him.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
There's no telling if the crowds will be hostile or receptive, and he's concerned about Jackie enjoying herself.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
They were still receptive to what I had to say.
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
During all the intervening time my mental condition had been a hurrying succession of vague emotional states or a sort of stupid receptivity.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
"And I take it the bankers in New York weren't receptive to your cash flow problems?"
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Sophie glared at Etta and got up to move around the room to more receptive ears.
Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
And so Errtu was quite receptive, even relieved, when it heard Drizzt's call floating down the valley.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
But we do not consider that it is enough to be passive receptors of entertainment.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End

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