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US
/ˈsɛnsəbɫi/
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[ UK /sˈɛnsəbli/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛnsəbli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner
he acted sensibly in the crisis
acted quite reasonably
speak more sanely about these affairs
How To Use sensibly In A Sentence
- Her sense of touch has sensibly increased during the year, and has gained in acuteness and delicacy. The Story of My Life
- The researchers sensibly restricted the investigation to time travellers from the future, 'given practical verifiability concerns'. Times, Sunday Times
- For Chilean architects, this is the challenge of a lifetime—to preserve history and to build sensibly.
- In Camberwick Green, everyone had sensibly diversified into specialist trades that made the town work as a well-regulated organic entity.
- The city in which you're driving is huge, and filled with people who quite sensibly run screaming when you screech around the corner.
- The angels said, "Who does not know that the delights of conjugial love exceed those of all other loves? and who cannot see, that into some love are collected all the blessednesses, satisfactions, and delights, which can possibly be conferred by the Lord, and that the receptacle thereof is love truly conjugial, which is capable of receiving and perceiving them fully and sensibly? The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
- She lost about 20 pounds, very sensibly, and she feels really happy about it.
- The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
- A truly wise man has the ability to see and understand what many do not see and understand, and to arrive at the most appropriate and right judgment sensibly and farsightedly. Dr T.P.Chia
- Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years.