perceptibly

Example Sentences

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The energy in the audience shifted slightly but perceptibly: Wait, is he rapping?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

She slows perceptibly, and the otherwise intense beam of her attention softens.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022

The secret ingredient: In a last swipe of brilliance, she grates in the zest of a lemon, which jolts the tomatoes to life without tasting more acidic or even perceptibly lemony.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2022

For example, neutron bombardment can turn the nickel in many steel alloys into a form that gives off helium, causing the steel to swell perceptibly.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 22, 2022

I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley