How to Use imperceptible in a Sentence

imperceptible

adjective
  • These changes will be imperceptible to most people.
  • If the song had the groove, there was an almost imperceptible nod of his head.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 July 2023
  • The imperceptible do-si-do of my matter and yours in the air between us.
    — Betty Gilpin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • For most folks watching at home, the change was imperceptible.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The tap of the gun on the window had been nearly imperceptible.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • What are the imperceptible clues that signal your job is in jeopardy?
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The sea and sky were the same shade of blue, the horizon an almost imperceptible smudge of yellow haze.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In the imperceptible gap between these works is the bulk of Parker’s art.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • Halving the mound height to five inches would be nearly imperceptible to fans.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Yet today that snafu is an imperceptible blip on a stock price chart that recently hit all-time highs.
    — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • But there’s also a long-term toll, one that’s more imperceptible, yet no less corrosive, to the body politic.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The notes are basically imperceptible, and the one note the speakers can hit seems to leap out of nowhere in the mix.
    — PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
  • Small, imperceptible cracks began to form as the bulkhead reached its breaking point.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • That change is likely imperceptible to the human eye.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Well, there are about a trillion guides for which widget will make an imperceptible improvement to your hike.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The key to achieve the color, however, is an imperceptible shade-match.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But stressors, nearly as imperceptible as the darters themselves, were too much for its small numbers to bear.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • But the new class of nuggets is meant for imperceptible mimicry, with high-tech alterations developed through blind taste tests.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2021
  • One of the best dual-clutch transmissions means gear changes are smooth and almost imperceptible.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2020
  • In a sport with razor-thin margins and near-imperceptible vagaries, Krueger knows both sides of the calls and the breaks.
    — Chelsea Janes, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Similarly, shifts from the two-speed rear end at around 87 mph are all but imperceptible.
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The hum was almost imperceptible at first, like standing near a massive beehive.
    — Diganta Sengupta, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But there’s been an imperceptible shift when the sun hits 18 degrees below the horizon.
    — Bonnie Tsui, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2021
  • The difference between a second and a decade should be imperceptible with the correct mind-set.
    — Ronald Metellus, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Road traffic is imperceptible from the house, and, when the maples and the river birches are in leaf, we cannot be seen by anyone walking by.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
  • As the doors parted and Brittany laid eyes on her man for the first time, an almost imperceptible shadow passed over her face.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2024
  • All of this seems like a plan to make the transition between the two shows nearly imperceptible to audiences.
    — Vulture, 5 May 2023
  • The device wasn’t the first time the Dresden team sought to measure nearly imperceptible amounts of force.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 June 2019
  • Looking at video footage from the inside of the train, the moment of derailment is almost imperceptible in the front of the car.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Gliding, light as a feather, through imperceptible gaps.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 12 May 2026

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