Susceptible

/[səˈsɛptɪbl̩]/

"Susceptible" in a Sentence (16 examples)

They are susceptible to changes in fashion.

She was susceptible to colds.

She's very susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.

Socially awkward children are more susceptible to bullying.

All nature joined in rejoicing at the springtide, and Daphnis and Chloe, young and susceptible as they were, imitated whatever they saw or heard. Hearing the carols of the birds, they sang; at sight of the playful skipping of the lambs they danced; and in imitation of the bees they gathered flowers, some of which they placed in their bosoms, whilst with others they wove chaplets which they carried as offerings to the Nymphs.

The purely autonomous robots were susceptible to an indoctrination into a robotic religion because universe is about probabilities and not absolutes.

The effect, which the various recollections connected with a scene so terrific made upon a mind which was susceptible in an extreme degree, was more permanent than the injury which her nerves had sustained.

On the other hand, Ravenswood saw in Lucy a soft and flexible character, which, in his eyes at least, seemed too susceptible of being moulded to any form by those with whom she lived.

Northern Algeria is susceptible to earthquakes.

Camgirls are especially susceptible to sexual harassment online.

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He was susceptible to minor ailments.

Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.

A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.

The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.

In the next several chapters, we put the basic tools to work in different contexts with particular specification of return and transition equations designed to render the Bellman equation susceptible to further analysis and computation.

In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.

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