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"Sensible" in a Sentence (33 examples)
They are sensible girls.
Ben, if anything, was a sensible man.
Ben, if anything, is a sensible man.
It was sensible of you to follow her advice.
It was very sensible of him to reject the bribe.
I'm supposed to be sensible human.
What he says sounds very sensible to me.
His advice is always very sensible.
He, if anything, is a sensible man.
He is by far the most sensible.
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They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.
I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.
“Delightful vision! A comfortable armchair, situated in three different draughts, at every ballroom; and nice, large, sensible shoes for all the couples to stumble over as they go into the veranda!”
She was a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body, with feet to match—these last encased in good thick boots.
Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet
1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (2001 Perennial Edition), page 8, They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters.
For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.
Air is sensible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Resistance to Bodies moved in it.
The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.
It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a sensible vision of their Saviour.
[T]he diſgrace was more ſensible than the pain.
The discovery of the mines of America […] does not seem to have had any very sensible effect upon the prices of things in England.
Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
a sensible thermometer
with affection wondrous sensible
He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
A bright Meſſenger from Heaven, made the Man of GOD ſenſible, That a Remarkable Safety ſhould be granted unto him, and therefore unto all the Company vvith Him.
Diſingaging myſelf then from his embrace, I made him ſenſible of the reaſons there vvere for his preſent leaving me; on vvhich, tho' reluctantly, he put on his cloaths vvith as little expedition, hovvever, as he could help, vvantonly interrupting himſelf betvveen vvhiles, vvith kiſſes, touches, and embraces, I could not refuſe myſelf to; […]
we are now sensible that it would have been absurd
Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain.
Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology.
This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
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