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 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
• And in spots where the sky was reflected off the water, the surface of the Brule, too, was perceptible to the eye.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 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
• It’s one of the perks of working from home, where CNN stays on most of the day, if at the lowest perceptible volume.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2022
• And that in my opinion is the only perceptible change in this field.
  — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Here the divide wasn't a mountain range, or even a perceptible bump in the landscape.
  — jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The cake is just the right amount of orange, with a barely perceptible hint of olive oil, but needed a few more minutes in the oven.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2022
• The goal is that these changes should be barely perceptible.
  — Nora Whelan, The Cut, 21 June 2018
• Freitag squints at my face on the screen and says my ptosis is perceptible but mild.
  — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2021
• The lid has almost no perceptible wobble, the hinge is nice and firm, and there’s a pleasing, soft click when closing the lid.
  — Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• One by one, the refugees began to notice that the water, which had no perceptible scent at the mouth of the river, now smelled bitter.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
• The skin is our largest organ and is the most perceptible organ to show initial signs of aging.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The first version lines up with what the police tell Noah and Cole, but the second feels more true, in some barely perceptible way.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 19 Aug. 2018
• As Binx Walton winked at an admirer in the front row, there was a perceptible sparkle in her eye.
  — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Laid out before him is a vista so vast that the spinning of the earth is perceptible in how the shade creeps down the far-off slopes, and how clouds cast tiny shadows on the valley floor.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
• The difference was barely perceptible when mixed with a splash of tequila and squeeze of lime.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• My routine was the same, but there was a perceptible difference in the softness.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2022
• At five-twenty-four, the fog was suddenly perceptible against the black dunes.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• The new icons are there, but the rounded corners are barely perceptible.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 16 June 2021
• The width and length of the structures stayed life-size, while the height, barely perceptible to fast and high-flying aircraft, was truncated.
  — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2020
• 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
• That means birds can distinguish subtle nuances in shades of green that are not perceptible to us.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024