DETECTABLE in a Sentence

Learn DETECTABLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
200 example sentences for DETECTABLE, such as:
1. I detected a smell of gas.
2. She detected the odor of gas in the room.
3. I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.
4. I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
5. Many forms of cancer can be cured if detected early.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DETECTABLE
detectable
 a.  easily seen or detected
 a.  capable of being detected
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  I should not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined I detected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the cold meat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
2  "No, my dear, for me there are no balls now where one enjoys oneself," said Anna, and Kitty detected in her eyes that mysterious world which was not open to her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
3  What her father said seemed simple enough, yet at these words Kitty became confused and overcome like a detected criminal.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
4  He recalled particularly vividly the shame he had more than once detected in her at this necessity for lying and deceit.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
5  "Of course I know you; I know you very well," the prince said to her with a smile, in which Kitty detected with joy that her father liked her friend.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
6  The prince went up to her, and Kitty detected that disconcerting gleam of irony in his eyes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
7  And again he detected the expression of alarm in the eyes of Sviazhsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
8  He tried to say what he was not thinking, but he felt continually that it had a ring of falsehood, that his brother detected him in it, and was exasperated at it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 32
9  When they reached a little marsh Levin would have driven by, but Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the experienced eye of a sportsman, at once detected reeds visible from the road.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
10  Darya Alexandrovna, watching Anna and Vronsky attentively, detected it instantly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
11  But a week passed, a second, a third, and in society no impression whatever could be detected.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 1
12  She was not above selling a poor grade of lumber for the price of good lumber if she thought she would not be detected, and she had no scruples about black-guarding the other lumber dealers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  To be poor seemed to her such a confession of failure that it amounted to disgrace; and she detected a note of condescension in the friendliest advances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
15  She detected in him at once all the signs of extreme nervous tension.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  And unlike prior P. fiction, a detectable story thread develops out of "the restless progress" of the two scientists.
2  There has been no detectable change in the patient's condition.
3  Many forms of cancer can be cured if detected early.
4  To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
5  It takes two to three weeks to grow the culture from which the presence of handicap can be detected.
6  These data show that most cancers are detected as a result of clinical follow - up.
7  A lot of cancers can now be cured if they are detected early.
8  Many serious illnesses can be nipped in the bud if they are detected early enough.
9  Gas was detected in sufficient quantity to warrant careful monitoring.
10  She detected the odor of gas in the room.
11  I detected a smell of gas.
12  As she walked into the house she detected the smell of gas.
13  I detected a faint note of weariness in his voice.
14  He detected a ship moving down the starboard side of the submarine.
15  I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.