Example Sentences

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The old man nodded almost imperceptibility to the bartender.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Faint almost to imperceptibility, but appalling, she suddenly heard the grinding of his teeth.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

We were so high above it that the heavings of its longer swells were leveled to imperceptibility, while the waves only graved the motionless surface.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival

Invisibility -- N. invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance, imperceptibility; indistinctness &c. adj.; mystery, delitescence†. concealment &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Ninety-nine hundredths of this amiable world of ours would have guffawed the poor creature into imperceptibility ages ago.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter