imperceptibly

IPA: ɪmpɝsˈɛptɪbɫi

adverb

  • Not noticeably; too small to be detected; too little to be perceived.
  • Beyond the purview of man; too great and all-encompassing to be perceived.
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Examples of "imperceptibly" in Sentences

  • The Earth will slow down imperceptibly.
  • But, imperceptibly, my need for alcohol took form and began to grow.
  • Barber says he has slowed "imperceptibly" but his body is slower to recover.
  • Highly dominant, moderately dominant, and what I call imperceptibly dominant or submissive.
  • And the thing began so imperceptibly that I, old intimate of John Barleycorn, never dreamed whither it was leading me.
  • Cornelius or Schnorr (imperceptibly, that is to say), and reminiscences are poured out slowly while the smoke puffs from the pipes.
  • Slowly the gray light came stealing through the gloom, imperceptibly at first, so that it was almost with surprise that they noticed the vague loom of the trail underfoot.
  • Clark smiled almost imperceptibly, that is his face expressed an inward amusement because a number of tiny lines wrinkled into being at the corners of his gray eyes, and his lips pushed out ever so slightly.
  • But if only the youngest cohort in society changes and then persists in that new direction throughout their own life cycle, society as a whole changes inexorably but almost imperceptibly, like a massive supertanker changing course.
  • Daylight's muscles tautened a second time, and this time in earnest, until steadily all the energy of his splendid body was applied, and quite imperceptibly, without jerk or strain, the bulky nine hundred pounds rose from the door and swung back and forth, pendulum like, between his legs.

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