How to Use sensibility in a Sentence

sensibility

noun
  • The writer is remembered most for his sensibility.
  • She's a woman of poetic sensibility.
  • It was all scripted, but a lot of the asides and quips were his own sensibility.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Over the course of a game, Cruz shows off her Bay Area sensibilities.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
  • The fake rom-com of Bros makes light of gay male sensibility.
    Armond White, National Review, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The best way to bring that sensibility, of course, is plenty of windows to let the sunshine in.
    Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Then there’s also the kind of sensibility and the worldview that Stuart kind of presents in his lyrics.
    Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 7 May 2024
  • The patterned sensibility of prints is a good fit for Paris.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Whatever your sensibility, here's how to make the most of your visit to the Balearics.
    Jessica Benavides Canepa, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • So spin the wheels of time, and the sensibilities of filmmakers who must adapt to them or else be accused of being out of touch.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The same sensibility goes for adult children who want to give a pet to a senior parent.
    Leanne Italie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The series is too full of old sensibilities about cops and robbers, about the justice system and about a lawman's place in the world.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • As time goes on young adults refine their lists and sensibilities, and along the way find their own voice, their people, their tribe.
    Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Baked into the morning-after fit is a lesson: Here’s the sensibility needed to move through the world and not be crushed by it.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Three years studying in the United States as a teen gave her a taste of Western sensibilities.
    Sara Austin, ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023
  • No big jump to see the black-and-white Saul episodes as an expansion of that Bad episode's breakaway sensibility.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • By the 1990s, the adult sensibility that Mr. Lear brought to television found a new home in cable drama.
    Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Coastal grandma style is a state of mind, a lifestyle sensibility, and a decor trend all rolled into one.
    Jennifer Cegielski, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The show is not only proof of their comedic brilliance but a defense of their sensibility.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But residents say a more ominous sensibility hangs over the city and the country.
    Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • With Apple on board, Watts went to work on the script, tailoring it to the actors' sensibilities and friendship.
    Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024
  • There is no city in the world that is home to more Jews than New York, and no city in this country as defined by Jewish sensibility and culture.
    Katherine Rosman Jonah Markowitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That, to me, is a slightly different sensibility about how a world is filmed on camera than pulling it straight from a book.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
  • Also, did the use of the artist’s husband’s name honor her, or should the writer have been more cognizant of today’s sensibilities?
    Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The story behind that famous bank robbery and shootout in 1997 seemed like a perfect match for you and your sensibilities.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Noah Holton-Raphael, co-owner of Ggiata, believes the new arrivals share an on-the-cusp sensibility.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2022
  • The three represent a big-tent sensibility in which there is something for everyone and room for each film to thrive.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • And while most electric cars have speed limiters set low for reasons of both range and sensibility, the EV6 GT is capable of 161 mph.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Because of this modernizing impulse, The Day of the Jackal possesses a blended sensibility.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Gillis, with his aw-shucks demeanor and decidedly un-PC comedy, represents exactly the kind of normal-guy sensibility Bud Light desperately needs to appeal to after alienating its core audience.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024

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