Example Sentences

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“I think we were not smart enough to understand how the mink were perceiving cues we were giving to them,” she said.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022

“I felt like the misperception was maybe that it was biological. But I felt what they were perceiving was accurate.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2017

And whereas before, her mother’s and Jaimito’s mother’s hints were the intrusion of elders into what was none of their business, now it seems the old people were perceiving destiny.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

It was as though his body were urging upon him the importance of his resistance, as though he were perceiving, too, with unmistakable clearness the cleavage that there was between body and soul.

From The Prelude to Adventure by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

In fact, we could not even say that we were perceiving.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur