How to Use receptive in a Sentence

receptive

adjective

• I was happy to be speaking before such a receptive audience.
• Mehta was not receptive to the request to wait for the Supreme Court.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024
• The righty was receptive and had seen what the Yankees had done for Clay Holmes’ career.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• But many city leaders from across the state have been more receptive.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2022
• There’s no need to be concerned if your cat isn’t receptive to CBD oil right away.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
• Clients and their families have been receptive to the changes.
  — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
• What could have made the other person be more receptive to your point of view?
  — Neha Sangwan, Fortune Well, 26 Sep. 2023
• More to the point, all of this may be finding a receptive audience among Trump's base.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023
• Every day, a few more does become receptive and that brings a frenzy to the bucks.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
• As with so many young adult novels, the kids outsmart the adults by being receptive to new ideas.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• Some were receptive, noting the pair’s high ranks within the chain of command.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 May 2022
• Not everyone in the program was receptive to this point of view.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• And the crowd has been so receptive and beautiful and diverse.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Back at Tika, Yam Yam is trying to make amends with Josh, who doesn’t seem to be very receptive.
  — Erica Thompson, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
• The war in Ukraine and the threat of a blackout in Tokyo after a strong earthquake this spring have made the public more receptive to this message.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• Mugler has always been a brand that’s been super receptive to me as a stylist.
  — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 3 July 2024
• Bet on the good-hearted lovers, friends, and jobs that arrive at your doorstep and try to put in the type of effort that others will be receptive to.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2023
• Bet on the good-hearted lovers, friends, and jobs that arrive at your doorstep, and try to put in the type of effort that others will be receptive to.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• Try asking how the person learned about the theory and be receptive to the answers.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
• How receptive have the streamers been to changing how deals are structured?
  — Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• If the subject was receptive, their answers made great TV.
  — Vulture, 3 Jan. 2023
• But some are receptive to giving parents a say in what happens to the blood after the screening.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
• This forces me to be rather receptive to whatever the drawing decides to be.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• My daughter and the other kids in our tests were surprisingly receptive to the flavors of the blends.
  — Stefani Sassos, Good Housekeeping, 30 Dec. 2022
• The couple were surprised at how many people opened their doors and were receptive.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
• For the most part, Zelenskyy has found a receptive audience in the west.
  — Byguy Davies, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2022
• On the other hand, A-list musicians—not to mention their labels and lawyers—might be less receptive to the idea.
  — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• His way of using language is all too often ours, which is one of the reasons so many of us are receptive to it.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• The minister was receptive, per sources privy to the conversation, while echoing a sentiment shared by her boss, French President Emmanuel Macron.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
• There’s also a danger in the sociology of the newsroom, where intelligent journalists lock into a viewpoint and aren’t as receptive to competing evidence.
  — Rob Wells / Made By History, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024