How to Use perceptible in a Sentence

perceptible

adjective
  • There was a perceptible change in the audience's mood.
  • The sound was barely perceptible.
  • The speed of light takes a perceptible amount of time to get there.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Over the past few decades, there's been a perceptible shift in the weather.
    — Mikhal Weiner, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The first two stages, denial and anger, are the most perceptible.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The skin is not perceptible, as Jesse said.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The steering is a touch slow but heavy enough for perceptible weight to bleed off as the nose starts to wash out.
    — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The steering is a touch slow but heavy enough for perceptible weight to bleed off as the nose starts to wash out.
    — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Freitag squints at my face on the screen and says my ptosis is perceptible but mild.
    — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2021
  • And that in my opinion is the only perceptible change in this field.
    — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The slack in the line should only be very slight, perceptible more to you than to anyone else.
    — Rosalind Brown, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The slack in the line should only be very slight, perceptible more to you than to anyone else.
    — Rosalind Brown, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Her small shakes of her head are barely perceptible in her disdain.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Here the divide wasn't a mountain range, or even a perceptible bump in the landscape.
    — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Leave your brow gel at the door—full, feathery eyebrows are out and barely perceptible brows are back in.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2022
  • With no artist, no context, no perceptible exchange, maybe the work remains just an idea.
    — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The skin is our largest organ and is the most perceptible organ to show initial signs of aging.
    — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The new icons are there, but the rounded corners are barely perceptible.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 16 June 2021
  • At five-twenty-four, the fog was suddenly perceptible against the black dunes.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The doctor assured me that the surgery only rarely changes the timbre of the voice in a perceptible way.
    — Dessa Dessa Tanya Pérez Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • But the chill on the industry is perceptible, even if subtle.
    — Michael Forsythe and Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2016
  • That means birds can distinguish subtle nuances in shades of green that are not perceptible to us.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
  • That mighty tree, it had been killed off by a tiny fungal infection that was barely perceptible at first.
    — Hilda Gitchell, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2023
  • At just a millimeter in length, the smear was barely perceptible.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The difference was barely perceptible when mixed with a splash of tequila and squeeze of lime.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Grape skins, seeds and stems also add tannin to wine, but the influence of oak is the most perceptible.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Kerss explains that most of the colors in the northern lights aren’t perceptible to the human eye.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The slight but perceptible price drop is in response to falling demand as motorists change their habits and drive less.
    — Arkansas Online, 1 July 2022
  • With a barely perceptible lurch, the airboat hurdled the canal bank and seemed to hover above it.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There are few places in which this urgence is more perceptible than on Socotra.
    — Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023

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