Sample sentences for SUSCEPTIBILITY

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the trait of being easily influenced or harmed

The company tests new employees for susceptibility to workplace hazards.

I don't drink because members of my family have an increased susceptibility to alcoholism.
'Our beloved Madame Flintwinch,' said Rigaud, 'developing all of a sudden a fine susceptibility and spirituality, is right to a marvel.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
The truth was, that while his person had been numbed by the shock, his susceptibility to apprehension kept his agitated mind in unrelieved distress.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
Midnight and noon and dawn and dusk are the hours of danger, susceptibility to the "grahayas"— planetary spirits of malignant character.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
Your pride is my pride, and your susceptibilities are mine.
Henry James -- Washington Square
His countrymen in the mass wounded his susceptibilities.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
"Why," he slowly replied, roughening his head more and more, "he is all sentiment, and—and susceptibility, and—and sensibility, and— and imagination.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
The man early discovered White Fang's susceptibility to laughter, and made it a point after painfully tricking him, to laugh at him.
Jack London -- White Fang
To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
A sample of his tb survived him, in a culture at the Massachusetts State Lab, where it was being tested for drug susceptibility.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing no doubt.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
Did she see him as some healthy nitwit from down below, whose susceptibilities were of the most harmless sort?
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
"Go on, Signor Pastrini," continued Franz, smiling at his friend's susceptibility.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
"Its susceptibility of being produced?" said I. "That is to say, of being destroyed," said Dupin.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
They always think their susceptibilities are more important than non-religious.
Peter Shaffer -- Equus
Did you expect us all to sit with downcast eyes out of regard for your susceptibilities?
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
The excessive physical charm of the Creole had first attracted her, for Edna had a sensuous susceptibility to beauty.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
Boys have given me the butterflies before, but I usually have more control over my susceptibility to such mundane movements.
Colleen Hoover -- Slammed

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