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Example sentences for "responses"

Lexicographically close words:
responding; respondis; respondit; responds; response; responsibilities; responsibility; responsible; responsibly; responsive
  1. They are responses to hope or fear which affect large numbers at the same time.

  2. The customs were responses of men to the great agents who (as they thought they perceived) wrought things in nature.

  3. It was the god dwelling in them who produced the mysterious rustlings and movements of the branches, from which the responses were interpreted by the attendant priests.

  4. The prophetess Deborah gave her responses under a palm near Bethel, which, according to sacred tradition, marked the grave of the nurse of Rachel.

  5. At the more sequestered Tiora Matiena the tree-oracle appears to have dwindled into a mere vestige, the responses being given by a woodpecker perched upon an oaken column.

  6. Temperature responses in free-living amphibians and reptiles of northeastern Kansas.

  7. Margaret is said to have abstained from all food and drink for three years, in the meantime growing, walking about, laughing, and talking like other children of her age.

  8. Then the organ intoned the massive Gregorian, and the chant of the mass moved amid the opulence of gold vestments; the Latin responses filled the ear; and at the end of long abstinences the holy oil came like a bliss that never dies.

  9. The swinging of a censer and the chanting of Latin responses are equally absurd if--' 'Do you think so?

  10. The application of the word spasm to these motor responses to cortical or subcortical stimulation is quite justifiable.

  11. In Virchow's phrase, the newborn infant is a spinal animal, endowed with spinal reflexes only; his responses to stimuli are beyond voluntary control.

  12. She was as pale as death, and her voice in making the responses was scarcely audible.

  13. At the end of each prayer the little bell was rung and responses came out of the depths of the surrounding darkness.

  14. During service Master Simon stood up in the pew and repeated the responses very audibly, evincing that kind of ceremonious devotion punctually observed by a gentleman of the old school and a man of old family connections.

  15. I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service and the faint responses of the choir; these paused for a time, and all was hushed.

  16. He took the whole burden of family devotion upon himself; standing bolt upright, and uttering the responses with a loud voice that might be heard all over the church.

  17. Among these, the speaking head of Orpheus, which uttered its responses at Lesbos, is one of the most famous.

  18. One school of psychologists inclined to minimise this participation, but the balance of evidence goes to show that there were massive responses to these suggestions of the belligerent schemer.

  19. He began to receive responses of a more and more hopeful type.

  20. The whole structure of human culture is in one respect an elaboration of the stimuli and responses of which the original emotional capacities remain a fairly fixed center.

  21. Its many activities are simple responses to stimuli that reach it from without, and its reactions to such stimuli are called reflex processes.

  22. But, Oh, for more ready and larger responses to the appeal which is ever sounding in our ears!

  23. Thank God for the responses already made, and but for which dark and hopeless, indeed, would be human hearts and places which have been illuminated by the light of God's Salvation.

  24. The successive responses to similar shocks will remain uniform, if the living tissue remained always the same.

  25. Thus, nerve was universally regarded as typically non-motile; its responses were believed to be characteristically different from those of muscle.

  26. We ascend, in the one case as in the other, from the simplicities of the isotropic to the complexities of the anisotropic; and the laws of these isotropic and anisotropic responses are the same in both.

  27. Summation effects were observed and fatigue effect demonstrated, while it was definitely shown that the responses were physiological.

  28. The plant not only lives and dies, wakes and sleeps but it makes the responses which in animal would be pleasure and pain.

  29. Bose proceeded to study the nature of responses evoked in plants by the stimuli of the natural forces.

  30. Curiously enough the respective responsive characteristics of the Anglo Saxon and the Indians are paralleled by the two types of responses seen in all living matter.

  31. The detached leaf, when placed in a nourishing solution soon recovers, and holds up its head with an attitude indicative of defiance, and the responses it gives are energetic.

  32. This lasts for twenty four hours, after which a curious change creeps in the vigour of its responses begins rapidly to wane.

  33. It had also been shown that all the varied and complex responses of the animal were foreshadowed in the plant.

  34. In-touchness with these sensations and our responses informs us about our quality of being, our thereness, our degree of presence with others.

  35. Our interpretation of the patient's calls as well as our responses are colored by the aim of our practice.

  36. Moreness--Choice How can a nurse let herself know her human responses and the breadth and depth of the possibilities called forth by the other?

  37. All fourteen patients I asked assured me by their responses that I was not projecting or seeing discomfort where it did not exist.

  38. It necessitated my being authentic with myself with regard to what responses were called forth in me in relating with a particular consultee.

  39. What in the behavior resulted from lifetime environmental influences and compounded responses that deepened scars?

  40. Today, Alice was always near me, but nonverbal except for concise responses to questions that were offered with effort.

  41. Significant to negative staff responses toward a nurse searcher is the necessity for her to withhold information.

  42. Yet, they are both subjects, that is, each is the originator of human acts and of human responses to the other.

  43. The distinction frequently is based in staffs' responses to the searcher's personality more than in the value of the issues of the investigation.

  44. They are human responses to the everyday world in which man lives.

  45. In recollecting and reflecting on perceptions and responses in all these extremes one becomes freer to select from within one's self the values to be chosen, actualized, and potentiated in one's nursing practice.

  46. Next Sunday Mrs. Yellam's responses were half a second ahead of the congregation.

  47. Upon the following Sunday, Mrs. Yellam appeared in her pew, and the fervour of her responses excited some comment.

  48. Her responses in church became louder and more fervent.

  49. Jeff was a very devout man, but not so much so as Lee, who made all the responses fervently, and knelt at every requirement.

  50. Responses of the tomato in solution cultures with deficiencies and excesses of certain essential elements.

  51. Growth and fruiting responses to pruning and defloration of tomato plants.

  52. He was one with all American soldiers, for in the service men of every type and of every previous standpoint were much alike, under the same orders, holding the same ideals, with similar responses and similar accomplishments.

  53. Those ancient responses to the errors and crimes of mobs and despots in the Orient contain principles whose vitality is not impaired by the passage of time.

  54. He was making responses in an old ritual.

  55. He sha'n't be growling out hypocritical responses from my poor grandmother's prayer-book.


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