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- noun Plural form of
sense . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sense .
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Examples
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It is of prime importance that what we seem to know we know accurately; and as it is through the senses that we acquire our knowledge, not only of the outward objects with which we are daily conversant, but of other minds than our own, * the education of the senses* is an obvious duty.
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Jesus†™ initial reaction to the knowledge flooding his mind and the assault to his senses is a catatonic state.
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The fish that had prompted me to take leave of my senses is an evil-tempered, prehistoric critter that lives only in certain big, cold, fast rivers in Mongolia and Siberia, most of which flow into the Arctic Ocean.
Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait) 2004
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This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was ‘finding his feet as a writer’.
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And to what extent this virtual reality engages all five senses is not made completely clear.
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This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was ‘finding his feet as a writer’.
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The development of the main senses took place in OF., and is not free from obscurity (cf., however, couth and known).
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This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was ‘finding his feet as a writer’.
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And to what extent this virtual reality engages all five senses is not made completely clear.
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And to what extent this virtual reality engages all five senses is not made completely clear.
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