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Example sentences for "imperceptibly"

Lexicographically close words:
imperatives; imperatorem; imperatori; imperatorum; imperceptible; imperfect; imperfection; imperfections; imperfectly; imperfects
  1. Some sort of order must be imperceptibly if not unconsciously maintained, or the sentences clash in general conversation.

  2. Time fled by on silent wing, and soon three weeks had almost imperceptibly glided away, and yet they had had no sort of intelligence of their friends, except the bald paragraphs that occasionally told their whereabouts, in the papers.

  3. With these and a thousand other thoughts her mind was busy, and two hours glided imperceptibly away.

  4. Or of Alcibiades leaning on his Crimson Couch in his Galley, his broad shoulders imperceptibly heaving with the Sea.

  5. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.

  6. The misty sky still seemed to descend evenly and imperceptibly toward the earth, the air was still, warm, and silent.

  7. Presently however, Lady Tonbridge looking up, was startled to see that the girl had imperceptibly fallen asleep.

  8. Which meant that, already, since her recapture by this English world, since what was hearsay had begun to be experience, the value of things had slightly and imperceptibly changed.

  9. By degrees, however, the wonderful ultramarine used in the decoration of the groined roof asserts itself, and what at first seemed utter blackness unfolds imperceptibly into an extraordinary scheme of colour.

  10. The graceful Torre Asinelli rises to a height of three hundred and twenty-one feet, and, although nearly four feet out of the perpendicular, tapers upwards so imperceptibly that the inclination is not noticeable.

  11. As the eye travels on, the emerald merges imperceptibly into green of a blueish tinge.

  12. They would naturally like their own laws better than any others, and would be already formed by them when they met in a common society: thus legislation imperceptibly began among them.

  13. Seemingly a solid crust of earth, it imperceptibly drifts in response to every wind.

  14. A purple fabric fell over the horizon and merged imperceptibly into the lighter purple blue of the upper skies.

  15. This ripened imperceptibly into a rosy aurora that gave notice of some mightier power approaching.

  16. For a moment they looked into one another's eyes; then, blinded, she swayed imperceptibly toward him, sighing as his arms tightened and her own crept up around his neck.

  17. Twice she looked around as though to interrupt his preoccupation, but he neither responded nor even seemed to be aware of her; and she sighed imperceptibly and followed his errant eyes with her own.

  18. In the shadowy half-light of the room Shiela halted at a sign from the nurse; the doctor glanced up, nodding almost imperceptibly as the girl's eyes fell upon the bed.

  19. She leaned almost imperceptibly toward him, and he moved his shoulder close to hers.

  20. It had it in its power to flatter the prejudices and feelings of the aristocracy, and thus artfully and imperceptibly win them over to its plans, and through them subvert the edifice of national liberty.

  21. She soon belonged entirely to the faction, and had imperceptibly changed her principles.

  22. Similarly, in underglaze painting on porcelain, the dazzling white expanse of the body, afterwards to be coated with limpid transparent glaze, is the background into which the design of the artist must imperceptibly melt.

  23. Beneath the delightful charms of oratory and poetry, the poison steals imperceptibly into ear and heart.

  24. And then after all they imperceptibly fall back again into the old well-known character.

  25. Thus all sects are mixed as well as all nations; thus religious indifference is imperceptibly disseminated from one end of the continent to the other; which is at present one of the strongest characteristics of the Americans.

  26. The unfortunate father and son had been poisoned by pulling off these boots, in which action they imperceptibly scratched their legs with the points of the fangs, through the hollow of which, some of this astonishing poison was conveyed.

  27. A long gravelly plain, sloping almost imperceptibly upwards, led us to the summit of the ridge, which was not more than two or three hundred feet above the plain we had left.

  28. After crossing this stream by a good wooden bridge, the road entered an open grassy plain sloping imperceptibly from the mountains towards the river, at the south-east angle of which lay the town or village of Padum.

  29. These, increasing imperceptibly in the course of ages, ultimately formed the rocks of the Cretaceous period, which we have now under consideration.

  30. After the flat place was reached x A is the depression cut by D, y C the elevation formed by B, and z B and v D are the arcs, differing almost imperceptibly from the true circular ones cut by A and C.

  31. Jacqueline had been imperceptibly edging away from her father and Leroux; she was now standing immediately beneath the rusty swords.

  32. But I shook my head imperceptibly in answer, and looked down at my bonds.

  33. They ran on and on in a murmur as of bees or of leaves rustling together in a wood; grew imperceptibly gentler; and almost imperceptibly ceased.

  34. Richard, the chauffeur, who had doffed his uniform and imperceptibly slipped back into his earlier relationship with the family, even to the point of eating with us; a fact which seemed curiously without offense.

  35. Almost imperceptibly the man with the scar contrived to point without raising his hand.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imperceptibly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.