Example Sentences

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“I was perceiving these dreams not as dreams but as memories,” he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2022

Victoria Shestack Aronoff in Maplewood, New Jersey, said that the hardest part was how she was perceiving their change in circumstances.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2022

"These weren't one-time messages. He would repeatedly text what he was perceiving to his mother, who sometimes would not respond for hours."

From Fox News • Jan. 7, 2022

“I’m growing to accept my needs for a partner, something that I was perceiving as a weakness in the past,” she says.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2020

Perhaps sub-consciously she was perceiving that this meeting with Derry Drake was to be a serious and stupendous occasion.

From The Tin Soldier by Bailey, Temple