How to Use suggestible in a Sentence

suggestible

adjective
  • The patient was highly suggestible.
  • That humans were so suggestible seemed like something science would need to account for.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Treating ourselves is a suggestible act — get the fancy latte in the morning and don't feel guilty about the cost.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Clipping electrodes onto your earlobes can leave you suggestible.
    — Alice Bradley, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • And sometimes suggestible, which is perhaps the greatest disruption of all.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 10 May 2017
  • Others may be suggestible to hearing or sensing sounds within the realm of the imagination.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2018
  • The city is seductive, and people who are highly suggestible can succumb to this seduction.
    — Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
  • If your child seems particularly suggestible and tends to take advice from YouTube stars, by all means.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But the communications with the dead went by without raising a single goose bump on this suggestible viewer’s skin.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The researchers argue that highly suggestible people have a tighter focus on instructions.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 July 2017
  • For kids who had yet to learn about unconscious minds and suggestible bodies, the device really seemed to move the fingers, rather than the other way around.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But too often, experts say, suggestible people mistake having one or two symptoms with having the disorder itself.
    — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The crowd proved particularly suggestible during this number.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
  • That cynics might view them as a wealthy man’s suggestible minions hardly matters, as the sense of purpose and belonging outweighs any external contempt.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Other people might just be highly suggestible and using their imaginations to hear the sounds (or people who sense something in the realm between noise and imagination).
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 May 2018
  • In the easily suggestible Western imagination, the mosque has often been cast as a site of sinister machinations.
    — M. Z. Adnan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Another example of framing bias is framing user-experience questions in a suggestible way.
    — Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Karen is headstrong and combative, yet besotted and suggestible, feeling erotic pleasure when Henry first asks her to hide his bloodied handgun early in the film.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where its practitioners expect to find supple and more-suggestible minds.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • The process of hypnosis takes several minutes, after Mecci first brings 20 people onstage, runs through exercises, then picks five of the most suggestible.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • We were told that Russia used these companies to hack the brains of suggestible yokels, and that only wise superintendence of social-media conversation by progressives could save the world from fascism.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Even trained and experienced guides may violate emotional or interpersonal boundaries of participants, who are in vulnerable and suggestible states brought on by the effects of the drugs themselves.
    — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • People who are overly suggestible, isolated and angry, based on their social and environmental circumstances may get attracted to dangerous ideologies, or join a criminal group or cult.
    — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Silverstone applies a harried sense of confused anxiety to Susan, while Corddry plays Bob as an unmotivated and easily suggestible pushover.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • And while some psychologists assert people with DID are simply highly suggestible, there are neural imaging studies indicating otherwise.
    — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
  • Humans, the research often suggested, were reliably mercurial, highly suggestible, profoundly irrational, tricksters better at fooling ourselves than anyone else.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • As Kirillov, his suggestible victim, paced the stage, preparing to commit suicide as the ultimate proof of his free will, Verkhovensky slowly and deliberately devoured a chicken, diligently sucking on every wing and bone.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018

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