How To Use Perceptibly In A Sentence
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The tension was mounting perceptibly.
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The air in the hallway flickers for a moment then fades imperceptibly as the shield buckles under the pressure.
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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
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the power of the Secretary of State in London increased gradually but imperceptibly
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
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His mouth twitches almost imperceptibly. I dare say that mine, under the cover of my beard, twitches faintly back.
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Imperceptibly at first, the avarice for which their caste is famous began to shine through like copper beneath worn silver-plating.
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The fruit is ripe when it is faintly but perceptibly squashy, especially at the stem end.
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To weaken, injure, or impair, often by degrees or imperceptibly; sap.
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Their movements perceptibly quickened under his coaching, and as the boat swung inboard I was sent forward to let go the jibs.
Chapter 25
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In the North there is a shorter pause, so conversations tend to and forth perceptibly faster.
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You can even detect a water-bug (Gyrinus) ceaselessly progressing over the smooth surface a quarter of a mile off; for they furrow the water slightly, making a conspicuous ripple bounded by two diverging lines, but the skaters glide over it without rippling it perceptibly.
Walden
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She seemed to sway, gently, almost imperceptibly, from side to side -- as though she waited for some sign or impellent force to guide her.
The Shadow of the East
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Let the sauce almost imperceptibly bubble for fifteen to twenty minutes, stirring frequently.
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It was like tasting honey and flowers, she had thought, beginning perceptibly to relax.
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Carved eyes saw them, carved faces perceived them, carved mouths opened imperceptibly wider, carved nostrils took their scent.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Gradually, almost imperceptibly, her condition had worsened.
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What shall we do, friend, with all these people; for, advancing step by step, we have imperceptibly got between the combatants, and, unless we can protect our retreat, we shall pay the penalty of our rashness — like the players in the palaestra who are caught upon the line, and are dragged different ways by the two parties.
Theaetetus
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So when the ice began to pop under my spreadeagled body still twenty feet from her and then the opaque white beneath me changed to a soft, rotten gray and now I was fifteen feet away and then, at ten, the ice sagged perceptibly, I stared at my good dog with the same entreaty I saw in her eyes.
Spring Ice
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The interview with de Vries is different, changing form slowly, almost imperceptibly at first, like an ice cube slowly melting into water.
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Imperceptibly the yellow balloon and the yellow copepod mingle with the music in my mind, the balloon representing the globe on which copepods play such a prominent ecological role.
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The adolescent manifestations come close to symptom formation of the neurotic, psychotic or dissocial order, and merge almost imperceptibly into borderline states, initial, frustrated or fully fledged forms of almost all the mental illnesses p.
Clinical Work with Adolescents
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Well, we left Tolapampa about 6 a.m., and for the best part of the day the route was over country very similar to that passed on the previous day; but we were descending rapidly now, and the temperature became perceptibly much warmer, in fact, by the afternoon we had indications that soon we should arrive in the "montes," where we would have vegetation in abundance, and consequently we would at least have some shade during the heat of the day.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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As the earth has gone through its grand cycles of geological, climatal, and organic progress, every form of life has been subject to its irresistible action, and has been continually but imperceptibly moulded into such new shapes as would preserve their harmony with the ever-changing universe.
On the Genesis of Species
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From the landrail I passed imperceptibly to the migration of the birds.
The Witch, and other stories
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Pasterns of moderate length perceptibly finer in bone than the leg, and slightly slanting.
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The fruit is ripe when it is faintly but perceptibly squashy, especially at the stem end.
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Still, however, he flattered himself that ere long, to her youthful mind and native chearfulness, tranquillity, if not felicity, would imperceptibly return, from such a union for exertion of filial and sisterly duties: that industry would sweeten rest, virtue gild privation, and self-approvance convert every sacrifice into enjoyment.
Camilla
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By 2019 the square millimetre of particle routes and imperceptibly tiny self-organising magnetic fields is producing deoxyribose by the picometre slice.
Everything2 New Writeups
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Dresser and cocomposer Lamont Wolfe fiddle around with tape manipulation productively (and often imperceptibly) on "Trenchant"; "Trains" is a humorous piece for tape and bass complete with (you guessed it) train noises.
Chicago Reader
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This space is nearly filled with benzole (boiling-point 80°C.; pure benzole, free from thiophene must be employed for the purpose, otherwise the boiling-point gradually and perceptibly rises in the course of time), and to the tubulure is fitted a long glass tube, some 2 metres long and about 0.75 cm. diameter, serving as a condensing tube (a tube half this length if provided with a condensing bulb at the centre will be equally efficient).
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control.
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The disease develops gradually and imperceptibly.
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Seeing the face of the subofficer in profile, the Lord Marshal sucked in his breath imperceptibly.
The Chronicles of Riddick
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Young's readings of Northern, Southern, white and African-American authors illustrate how cultural typologies and literary tropes slide almost imperceptibly from one meaning to another.
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He stares at my clothes with an indiscernible look, waits for a second, then shrugs imperceptibly and returns to his work.
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As Patrick stares blankly at the rabbi, Rebecca's dad gets up and explains in his polished and pukka, but perceptibly unEnglish accent:
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
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Daylight's muscles tautened a second time, and this time in earnest, until steadily all the energy of his splendid body was applied, and quite imperceptibly, without jerk or strain, the bulky nine hundred pounds rose from the door and swung back and forth, pendulum like, between his legs.
Chapter III
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The gap separating wealthy peasant farmers from cottiers and day labourers widened imperceptibly.
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When you reflect that this advertisement appears, for instance, in every theatre programme, so that every theatre-goer is at any rate assumed to have a secret fantasy life in which he thinks of himself as a young man of fashion with faithful old retainers, the prospect of any drastic social change recedes perceptibly.
As I Please
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The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar.
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She twittered and tweeted and seemed to move imperceptibly whilst standing completely still.
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Imperceptibly descending towards the mountain summit, it cast the land in an array of shadows.
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The accessions, which are made to land, 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 assist the imagination in the conjunction.
An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
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Some interioranos grade imperceptibly into an acculturated native American population known pejoratively as cholos, who refer to themselves as naturales.
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The colour-coded branding will accompany the whole of the BBC's coverage – orange for the 70-day torch relay and gold for the Olympics itself although no word on whether this will imperceptibly transmogrify into bronze, depending on the performance of Team GB.
Media Monkey's diary
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Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did.
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I nodded imperceptibly, anxious not to inflame him further.
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The room seemed to darken perceptibly even though bright sunlight flooded its every corner.
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The tide had perceptibly slackened and the surface of the sea settled from a small chop to an oily slick in which virtually every subsurface movement for yards around the boat could be seen though our polarised sunglasses.
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Imperceptibly the yellow balloon and the yellow copepod mingle with the music in my mind, the balloon representing the globe on which copepods play such a prominent ecological role.
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The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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When the Rifleman discovered the canoe lying against the bank, he sprung from the water, coming upon the frail barken structure with such force that he perceptibly started the bottom.
The Riflemen of the Miami
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If the species originated by descent from the most closely related lower species, and under certain circumstances also from species of the same rank, and even by degeneration from the next higher, it must have occurred in one of two ways: either by leaps -- called by naturalists "metamorphosis of germs" or "heterogenetic conception" -- or by a succession of imperceptibly small alterations of the individuals from generation to generation.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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Gradually, almost imperceptibly, her condition had worsened.
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The patient has improved perceptibly.
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A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down.
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Close to the beginners meadow are gentle slopes, which become imperceptibly steeper, enabling you to improve without fear.
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The four-year-old son of Scenic appeared perceptibly lame in his right hind leg during the broadcast.
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Free labour merges imperceptibly with slavery; work becomes servitude; livelihood is transformed into strange new forms of bondage.
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The caps are very irregular in shape, curved, repand, radiately furrowed, sometimes zoned; gray, or hair-brown in color, with a perceptibly hairy surface, the hairs running in lines on the surface.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
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In the North there is a shorter pause, so conversations tend to and forth perceptibly faster.
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With nothing but the gentle slap of one piece of pasteboard against another to distract him, Sam slipped imperceptibly from daydreaming into sleep.
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The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly.
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During our passage in the track-schuyt I had an evidence to the contrary, for as we glided noiselessly and almost imperceptibly along, a lady told me that she infinitely preferred the three-horse power of the schuyt to the hundred-horse power of the steam-packet.
Olla Podrida
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A removable battery cover may jolt a hard drive unacceptably when jogging, albeit imperceptibly to the user.
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In the North there is a shorter pause, so conversations tend to and forth perceptibly faster.
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The caps are very irregular in shape, curved, repand, radiately furrowed, sometimes zoned; gray, or hair-brown in color, with a perceptibly hairy surface, the hairs running in lines on the surface.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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On sloping ground, soil can slip downwards at an imperceptibly slow rate by a process known as lateral creep.
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God is such an incomplex Being, that He is quicker than lightning, quicker than thought, and imperceptibly visits our soul.
My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
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This means that it is no longer in geostationary orbit, and it starts to “fall†perceptibly toward the Earth.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Thus uncle and niece glided imperceptibly into that mode of life which is called humdrum, and which some wise people consider the best mode of getting through existence.
The Grey Lady
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I move my head imperceptibly, because of his moustache which brushes against my nostrils with a scent of vanilla and honeyed tobacco.
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The distaste was tangible across his face and he shuddered perceptibly.
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The same winds dry out the stacked brushwood, which settles imperceptiblyas a pheasant or a leveret, when surprised, settles itself stealthily into the ground.
Wildwood
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These men may have been of sufficient influence to become imperceptibly more like chieftains in control of warbands than Roman commanders.
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As for bridges, fairground rides, aeroplanes and indeed absurdly altitudinous skyscrapers that move perceptibly in the breeze - not fine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever crisis engulfs the country, at least you know that the engine is turning over smoothly, every sprocket interlocking, the gears changing so imperceptibly that all you can hear is the ticking of the clock.
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The young captain reddened imperceptibly, and his smile got wider.
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The wood grain on the steering wheel and dash blend in almost imperceptibly with the seat leather, a nod to the Chinese, who are used to monotone color schemes.
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We banked, passing a startled flock of Canada geese, and I felt her laugh against me, felt the sheer joy that suffused her, just as it suffused me when I flew, and my arms tightened imperceptibly, holding her even closer, somehow wanting to absorb her into my bones.
Raziel
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He has to a very slight extent, but still perceptibly, encouraged a kind of charlatanism of utterance among those who possess his Irish impudence without his Irish virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
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So chemistry divided and sub-divided down to atoms; then, in the essential insecurity of all quasi-constructions, it built up a system, which, to anyone so obsessed by his own hypnoses that he is exempt to the chemist's hypnoses, is perceptibly enough an intellectual anæmia built upon infinitesimal debilities.
The Book of the Damned
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A projecting structure termed the extensor process (or extensor attachment) is present between the carpal trochlea and the alular digit; it belongs to metacarpal I (also called the alular metacarpal), but this is hard to appreciate in modern birds because metacarpal I is fused imperceptibly into the carpometacarpus as mentioned above [in the adjacent diagram, from
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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It was like tasting honey and flowers, she had thought, beginning perceptibly to relax.
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My father seemed to age perceptibly, reflecting on his companion gone, and he clung to me like the _crotal_ to the stone.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Almost imperceptibly, one pair's dancing morphed into wrestling, embraces turned into headlocks and back into eyelash-batting flirtation just in time for another couple's dancing to begin a similar cycle.
