How To Use perceptibly In A Sentence
- The tension was mounting perceptibly.
- The air in the hallway flickers for a moment then fades imperceptibly as the shield buckles under the pressure.
- The change may have progressed insidiously and stealthily, having slowly and almost imperceptibly induced important molecular modifications in the delicate vesicular neurine of the brain, ultimately resulting in some aberration of the ideas, alteration of the affections, or perversion of the propensities or instincts .... Lady Byron Vindicated
- the power of the Secretary of State in London increased gradually but imperceptibly
- The accessions, which are made to lands bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, Insensibly and Imperceptibly; which are circumstances that mightily assist the imagination in the conjunction. A Treatise of Human Nature
- He stuck one end imperceptibly into the desktop disintegrator then offered it to his guest, who waved a polite no thanks. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- It’s like the magic sword, a grunt’s Excalibur: all you do is move that finger so imperceptibly just a wish flashing across your mind like a shadow, not even a full brain synapse, and I poof in a blast of sound and energy and light a truck or a house or even people disappear, everything flying and settling back into dust. Bush Rules
- Thou appearest to all the Greeks to be fond of thy wife; (and this I say, not stealing under thee imperceptibly with flattery;) by her I implore thee; O wretched me for my woes, to what have I come? but why must I suffer thus? The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
- The special value of the "vrai reseau" in our own day is that it can be imperceptibly repaired, the broken stitches replaced, whereas in the woven ground the point of junction must show. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
- This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.