sensitive

How To Use sensitive In A Sentence

• I really like this definition, the photo surface is as sensitive and fragile as if it was alive and des-troying itself little by little.
• Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame. Springhaven
• The visual system of most bird species, including all passerine birds tested to date, is sensitive to UV wavelengths.
• How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
• It acknowledges that some students may be experiencing difficulty, so we should be sensitive to their needs - such as allowing make-ups.
• Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
• And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
• This, perhaps the greatest period of an already great life, has been sensitively written about by memoirists and historians.
• The overriding principle is not to offend the sensitive by immoderate cachinnation at an inappropriate joke. Times, Sunday Times
• Deuterium is a relatively insensitive nucleus because it has a low gyromagnetic ratio and the spectral intensity is generally spread over an extremely wide frequency range due to the quadrupole interaction.