Example Sentences

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Ms. Pennypacker writes sensitively about the Lebensborn program for her middle-grade audience without minimizing any of its devastating implications.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Commenting on the row to the Welt TV channel, German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer defended Wenders and Tuttle from criticism, saying they were running the festival "in a very balanced way, very sensitively".

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

About 30 people attended last year's session to learn how schools could respond sensitively to the needs of pupils during the holy period, and organisers said demand for the event remained high.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

"The fact that we can track the predictive influence of obesity on rising blood biomarkers more sensitively than PET is what astonished me in this study," he said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

It was Mrs. Dalton, her white eyes held wide and stony, her hands lifted sensitively upward toward her lips, the fingers long and white and wide apart.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright