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 | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• The tap of the gun on the window had been nearly imperceptible.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• 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
• If the place has a sense of humor about itself, it’s so dry as to be imperceptible.
  — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• 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
• In the imperceptible gap between these works is the bulk of Parker’s art.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• 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
• The haze in Eagle Pass had cleared and now, degree by imperceptible degree, the disc of the sun began to shift to a crescent.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
• The device wasn’t the first time the Dresden team sought to measure nearly imperceptible amounts of force.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 June 2019
• To the naked eye, the differences between 4K and 8K can be imperceptible at a distance as short as 4.3 feet.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2020
• The greens tasted almost imperceptible in this one; a boon for drinkers with a sweet tooth and the vegetable-averse but not so much for those who like their spinach to taste like spinach.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The difference is imperceptible to the naked eye but that’s how much more time, on average, Mahomes takes than Brady to throw the ball.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• The cheese here—the star for which the dough is for the most part merely a delivery vehicle—is nearly imperceptible.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• The world turned in both dramatic and imperceptible ways in the aftermath of 9/11.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
• But there’s been an imperceptible shift when the sun hits 18 degrees below the horizon.
  — Bonnie Tsui, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2021
• Entering the thicket of the Ramble, the sounds of the city grow distant, almost imperceptible.
  — Aaron Hicklin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Truly weightless and imperceptible to the naked eye, Opte makes your skin look flawless yet totally bare at the same time.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Oct. 2020
• The difference between a second and a decade should be imperceptible with the correct mind-set.
  — Ronald Metellus, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
• Though each shock is imperceptible, a thousand shocks is agony, so that, at the end of the exercise, a thousand people have been tortured.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 29 May 2024
• 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
• For familiar pairs, such as the moon and Earth, such energy loss is imperceptible even on timescales of billions of years.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2016
• All of this seems like a plan to make the transition between the two shows nearly imperceptible to audiences.
  — Vulture, 5 May 2023
• 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
• The iPhone 13 brought a few almost imperceptible changes.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
• It's dwarfed by the landscape, an almost imperceptible red speck against the ice cliffs where Helheim stops and its remnants begin.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2019
• 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
• But the newest tool from the company helps hyper personalize the experience based on product titles and descriptions; the changes consumers see are almost imperceptible.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024