Example Sentences

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“The media has been so perceivably thorough in their investigation that I really suspected my own friend.”

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

He is not perceivably intelligent, engaging, or kind.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2020

Inasmuch as scenes of this kind can occur perceivably only in the most externalized forms of anger, so such an explosion is elementary and cannot possibly be confused with another.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

As a rule such very pitiful individuals are so less likely to deny their crime in the degree in which they feel unhappy that their sorrow is not perceivably increased through arrest.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

For brightness, within certain intensity limits, this increase must be about one one-hundredth; a brightness of 100 units, for example, is just perceivably different from one of 101 units.

From The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior by Yerkes, Robert M.