How to Use perceptive in a Sentence

perceptive

adjective
  • He is a very perceptive young man.
  • That line, perceptive and alive, is typical of The Half of It.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Apr. 2020
  • At the end of one slide, a colleague asked a very perceptive question.
    Washington Post, 25 July 2021
  • To be so perceptive and yet so innocent—that, in a phrase, is the achievement of Proust.
    Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 9 July 2017
  • Even the most perceptive house guest won’t be able to tell there’s a bed hidden behind this shelf.
    Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
  • But just shy of her 10th birthday this month, the girl is perceptive beyond her years.
    Regina Garcia Cano, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Raheem is the quieter but perhaps the more perceptive of the two, and is devoted to Choton.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • One of the ways the Chiefs can do that is by taking advantage of his perceptive nature.
    Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 6 Sep. 2017
  • His scoops and perceptive writing caught the eye of Times editors, who hired him in 1959.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
  • To pass the time, each of them tells a story over the course of 10 days, each more imaginative and more biting (and yet perceptive) than the last.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
  • But the perceptive pop star didn't set out to make an album about a single house party.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 16 June 2017
  • The show is viciously perceptive, with both a sense of humor and a real dark streak.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Pim is a sensitive and perceptive guide to Roth’s life and his writing.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • As the perceptive Moon meets rigid Saturn in your ambitious 10th house, try to get a sense of what might convince them to hear you out.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • Well: Your hearing might be impaired, but your perceptive and kind message came through loud and clear.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And some of my youthful impressions turned out to be perceptive about problems that would vex this hall for some 60 years.
    Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Some of his fans even compare him to Nas, a perceptive storyteller renowned as one of hip-hop’s best lyricists.
    Andrew Gospe, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
  • The performances in Battle of the Sexes, agile and perceptive, keep the game alive every minute.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The perceptive reader will have already spotted the flaw in my thinking.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • One of the most perceptive came in the form of a cartoon posted last week by one of the company’s own software engineers.
    Wired, 19 July 2022
  • Boyd, an acutely perceptive young woman, lives in the Texas Hill Country.
    Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com, 9 June 2020
  • The book is rich not just in memorable, strange characters but in fine, perceptive lines.
    The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • This will always be the fate of some prospects, even those identified as good players by baseball minds as perceptive as those that run the Cubs.
    Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Steve [Rattner] wrote a very perceptive op-ed about why these proposals don’t work, or worse.
    Eben Shapiro, Time, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Marchand is so quick-witted and enjoys the give-and-take...Bergeron is thoughtful and perceptive...
    Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • There’s value in being intuitive and perceptive about the things around you.
    Ashley Oliver, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But to a perceptive birder like Gibson, the neighborhood pond is an expanse of new birds.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • At 18, Gutierrez is extremely perceptive of how he’s transformed over the last few years.
    Vulture, 14 July 2023
  • Godard’s camera has a formidable agility that’s at once perceptive and analytical, moving at the speed of sight and thought together.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
  • Early in his presidency, Biden asked perceptive questions, concentrated fully, and was engaged and lucid in his comments.
    Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024

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