How to Use perceive in a Sentence

perceive

verb

• I thought I perceived a problem, but I wasn't sure.
• But the way y'all look at me and perceive me has changed.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 May 2022
• The storms are far too big for humans to perceive from the ground.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian, 17 Sep. 2019
• For the first time in my life, the world perceived me as a woman both in and out of clothes.
  — Meredith Talusan, Bon Appetit, 13 Mar. 2018
• Some of the threat, said Ms. Tamm, is more perceived than real.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
• With that said, Kansas and Texas are perceived to be the top two in this one.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 7 Oct. 2017
• As a reminder that he was once perceived as a contender to be the No.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 1 June 2018
• While rods detect light, cones are the part of the eye that perceive color.
  — Southern Living, 3 July 2018
• The trainees could perceive the world as their patients.
  — Sergei Vardomatski, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• So the idea is to have eight episodes that can be perceived as eight action movies.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• John lost Normandy in a war with France and was perceived as weak.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 30 Mar. 2020
• The body’s loss happens to us all, but doesn’t the soul always perceive it as a tragedy?
  — Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
• Nobody perceived a threat, and not a siren could be heard.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 27 June 2018
• Most of society will perceive them as white for the rest of their lives.
  — cleveland, 1 June 2020
• Men have a lot of power over the way boys perceive themselves.
  — Anna North, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• But the larger issue had more to do with how fans perceived him.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 22 June 2018
• Is there any way to avoid your fate when you’re already perceived as a big threat?
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 10 May 2024
• Any perceived move away from the status quo in the talks could spark a spike in volatility.
  — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 19 July 2017
• Her evolution, and how it will be perceived, is top of mind.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2017
• But the price is a loss of control over what her likeness does and how it—and therefore she—is perceived.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Not because of what’s going on at home, but because of how the world treats them and how they’re perceived.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• Most of the time, people lie to protect how others perceive them, Evans said.
  — Marisa Iati, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
• But the union between dresses and jeans, as unholy as some might perceive it, is here to stay.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes the help goes beyond what your eyes can perceive.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• My guess is that anybody who was perceived as close to Trump, their phones were ringing like ours.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2018
• Allow your child a safe space to express their emotions and teach them how to perceive what is a safe space.
  — Anisha Vanita Williams, Essence, 5 July 2022
• My brain can perceive that signal and then cancel it out.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2020
• In fact, children perceived as not what the parents ordered can even be turned away.
  — Kristan Hawkins, National Review, 19 July 2019
• The defense said the risk of Neely's death was not something Penny could have perceived or anticipated.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
• And several studies have found people report perceiving less discomfort in the next day or two after wearing them.
  — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024