PERCEPTIVE in a Sentence

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For PERCEPTIVE, below is one of 140 sentences:
The smile was faint, scarcely perceptible, and in spite of the smile the stern expression of the eyes was unchanged.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERCEPTIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perceptive
 a.  insightful; aware; wise; having the ability to perceive
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  Still I had had such extraordinary evidence of the quickness of his perceptive faculties, that I had no doubt that he could see a great deal which was hidden from me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  "I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  Colonel Brandon's partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor, when it ceased to be noticed by them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
5  His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  Stepan Arkadyevitch gave a scarcely perceptible smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had long known that Levin was in love with his sister-in-law, Kitty, gave a hardly perceptible smile, and his eyes sparkled merrily.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
8  Even the Tatar, uncorking the bottle and pouring the sparkling wine into the delicate glasses, glanced at Stepan Arkadyevitch, and settled his white cravat with a perceptible smile of satisfaction.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
9  Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
10  With a flying, feminine glance she scanned her attire, and made a movement of her head, hardly perceptible, but understood by Kitty, signifying approval of her dress and her looks.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
11  Looking down at her he saw her face in profile, and from the scarcely perceptible quiver of her lips and eyelashes he knew she was aware of his eyes upon her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
12  The smile was faint, scarcely perceptible, and in spite of the smile the stern expression of the eyes was unchanged.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
13  Vronsky gave a hardly perceptible shrug.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 32
14  Anna gave a just perceptible smile, but made no answer.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
15  As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  He was one of the most perceptive US political commentators.
2  This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.
3  In sense capacity, in perceptive and discriminative ability, there is likewise a practical equality.
4  The difference is scarcely perceptible to the average reader.
5  The price increase has had no perceptible effect on sales.
6  Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
7  There was a barely perceptible movement in his right arm.
8  His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.
9  Pasternak gave him a barely perceptible smile.
10  His analysis of the problem showed great perception.
11  We have to change the public's perception that money is being wasted.
12  My perception of the problem is quite different.
13  Drugs can alter your perception of reality.
14  Let's keep things to reality, and CNN's supposition for why this drop in perception is certainly not reality.
15  Edmund Wilson's perception gave him an unparalleled understanding of American literature and life.