How to Use suggestible in a Sentence

suggestible

adjective

• The patient was highly suggestible.
• If your child seems particularly suggestible and tends to take advice from YouTube stars, by all means.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• For kids who had yet to learn about unconscious minds and suggestible bodies, the device really seemed to move the fingers, rather than the other way around.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022
• And sometimes suggestible, which is perhaps the greatest disruption of all.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• Others may be suggestible to hearing or sensing sounds within the realm of the imagination.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2018
• But the communications with the dead went by without raising a single goose bump on this suggestible viewer’s skin.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The city is seductive, and people who are highly suggestible can succumb to this seduction.
  — Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
• The researchers argue that highly suggestible people have a tighter focus on instructions.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 July 2017
• Other people might just be highly suggestible and using their imaginations to hear the sounds (or people who sense something in the realm between noise and imagination).
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 May 2018
• Karen is headstrong and combative, yet besotted and suggestible, feeling erotic pleasure when Henry first asks her to hide his bloodied handgun early in the film.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
• But Trump appears to be unusually suggestible for someone in his position.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
• The process of hypnosis takes several minutes, after Mecci first brings 20 people onstage, runs through exercises, then picks five of the most suggestible.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where its practitioners expect to find supple and more-suggestible minds.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• But too often, experts say, suggestible people mistake having one or two symptoms with having the disorder itself.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• We were told that Russia used these companies to hack the brains of suggestible yokels, and that only wise superintendence of social-media conversation by progressives could save the world from fascism.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 Oct. 2022
• The content is self-perpetuating, too, since the suggestible youth consuming it automatically become disposed to recognize the Hat Man in their own bedrooms.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
• Silverstone applies a harried sense of confused anxiety to Susan, while Corddry plays Bob as an unmotivated and easily suggestible pushover.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• As Kirillov, his suggestible victim, paced the stage, preparing to commit suicide as the ultimate proof of his free will, Verkhovensky slowly and deliberately devoured a chicken, diligently sucking on every wing and bone.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Another example of framing bias is framing user-experience questions in a suggestible way.
  — Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• People who are overly suggestible, isolated and angry, based on their social and environmental circumstances may get attracted to dangerous ideologies, or join a criminal group or cult.
  — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2019
• And while some psychologists assert people with DID are simply highly suggestible, there are neural imaging studies indicating otherwise.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• Humans, the research often suggested, were reliably mercurial, highly suggestible, profoundly irrational, tricksters better at fooling ourselves than anyone else.
  — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
• A psychological evaluation found Sanborn suffers intellectual challenges, is highly suggestible, compliant and easily swayed, his lawyer said.
  — Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 6 July 2017

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024