SENSITIVITY in a Sentence

Learn SENSITIVITY 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.
119 example sentences for SENSITIVITY, such as:
1. Avoid using perfumed soaps on sensitive skin.
2. An instrument used to measure tactile sensitivity.
3. His callused hands had lost their tactile sensitivity.
4. The bill gives sensitive police files a blanket exemption.
5. ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SENSITIVITY
sensitivity
 n.  the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
 n.  sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Ellen, sensitive to the bonds of kin, be they blood or marriage, wrote back reluctantly agreeing that she must stay but demanding Wade and Prissy be sent home immediately.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  He was still the thin sensitive boy with the same lock of pale brown hair hanging over his forehead and the same delicate useless-looking hands she remembered so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Despite hard work, they were still slender and sensitive looking and remarkably well tended for a farmer's hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  But now she had grown more sensitive to criticism and less confident in her power of disarming it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
9  Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  She got through three more minutes by studying the face of a girl in the pew across: a sensitive unhappy girl whose longing poured out with intimidating self-revelation as she worshiped Mr. Zitterel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  He was at once too sensitive and too sophisticated to touch business as she knew it in Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  He was the first man in town who had not been sensitive enough to feel Carol's aloofness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
15  The door opened; Miss Nellie and her music-master stood behind it, but blind Samson, who was so sensitive to presences, did not know they were there.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  McGill University discovered that sensitivity to rose odour is greater in subjects that are sitting than in those lying down.
2  His coarse, hard-bitten exterior does belie his inner sensitivity.
3  Jack had a bluff and hearty manner that belied his actual sensitivity; he never let people know how thin-skinned he really was.
4  His callused hands had lost their tactile sensitivity.
5  It's not clear exactly which part of the film is causing concern, but general political sensitivity within a volatile region seems likely.
6  With students she had a sure touch and showed great personal sensitivity.
7  She pointed out with tact and sensitivity exactly where he had gone wrong.
8  Fundamentally, women like him for his sensitivity and charming vulnerability.
9  An instrument used to measure tactile sensitivity.
10  The Commission is sensitive to accusations that it is overstepping its authority.
11  Avoid using perfumed soaps on sensitive skin.
12  Her rather tough and worldly exterior hides a very soft and sensitive heart.
13  According to Mandy, Pat's tough exterior hides a shy and sensitive soul.
14  A baby is sensitive to the slightest nuances in its mother's voice.
15  The bill gives sensitive police files a blanket exemption.