Sample Sentences for

perception

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

It was Wu's deepest perception that the park was fundamentally sound, as he believed his paleo-DNA was fundamentally sound.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Instinctively, Ender's perception of these events changed.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

While you're busy knitting sweaters, my dear, I have to deal with the community's perception of our family.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions.  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too.  (source) William P. Young, The Shack, 2007

Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The warm-blooded controversy had raged for fifteen years, before a new perception of dinosaurs as quick-moving, active animals was accepted—but not without lasting animosities.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

It was then I realized how cruelly I had judged her, how my perception of her had been distorted, because I'd been looking at her through my father's harsh lens.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the color he knew as red.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

"And bless our sister in her weakness and affliction." Whom did he mean? Heavens, was he talking about Mercy? Had the man no perception at all? How Mercy must be shriveling...  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

Good Mrs. Lynde, not being overburdened with perception, did not see this.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

All this was accomplished with a subtlety so perfect, that the minister, though he had constantly a dim perception of some evil influence watching over him, could never gain a knowledge of its actual nature.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Hume opposed all thoughts and ideas that could not be traced back to corresponding sense perceptions.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

In the silence Lily had a clear perception of what was passing through his mind.  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

Quite a young chap, but he'd had perceptions, that boy.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

At first, it was a sort of stupefaction; but every moment was quickening her perception of the horrible evil.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

But he doesn't doubt that it will now fail to live up to this perception.†  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

Our perceptions of everything are organized by the flux of sensations passing over that framework.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

I'm annoyed that he has this perception of me, and even more annoyed that he's right.†  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

Always taking my side, blaming his negative perceptions on the Capitol's torture.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010