How to Use receptive in a Sentence

receptive

adjective
Definition of receptivenext
Synonyms for receptivenext
  • I was happy to be speaking before such a receptive audience.
  • Mehta was not receptive to the request to wait for the Supreme Court.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The righty was receptive and had seen what the Yankees had done for Clay Holmes’ career.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • Clients and their families have been receptive to the changes.
    — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
  • What could have made the other person be more receptive to your point of view?
    — Neha Sangwan, Fortune Well, 26 Sep. 2023
  • More to the point, all of this may be finding a receptive audience among Trump's base.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Every day, a few more does become receptive and that brings a frenzy to the bucks.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
  • And the crowd has been so receptive and beautiful and diverse.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Back at Tika, Yam Yam is trying to make amends with Josh, who doesn’t seem to be very receptive.
    — Erica Thompson, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Mugler has always been a brand that’s been super receptive to me as a stylist.
    — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 3 July 2024
  • Bet on the good-hearted lovers, friends, and jobs that arrive at your doorstep and try to put in the type of effort that others will be receptive to.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2023
  • Bet on the good-hearted lovers, friends, and jobs that arrive at your doorstep, and try to put in the type of effort that others will be receptive to.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • How receptive have the streamers been to changing how deals are structured?
    — Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • If the subject was receptive, their answers made great TV.
    — Vulture, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This forces me to be rather receptive to whatever the drawing decides to be.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • My daughter and the other kids in our tests were surprisingly receptive to the flavors of the blends.
    — Stefani Sassos, Good Housekeeping, 30 Dec. 2022
  • On the other hand, A-list musicians—not to mention their labels and lawyers—might be less receptive to the idea.
    — Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • His way of using language is all too often ours, which is one of the reasons so many of us are receptive to it.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • And Timmons said phrasing fact checks in the right way is key to making readers more receptive to them.
    — Jule Pattison, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2022
  • What makes backers of the initiative think the council will be any more receptive now?
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • Have fans of the original been receptive to this sequel?
    — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The thin and delicate skin on your lips is highly receptive to the benefits of CBD.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • But there was also reason to think that the court would be receptive to Groff’s position.
    — Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
  • Now, there’s been some plausible doubt so far as to why Lindy has been more receptive to Ruby than the Doctor thus far.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • Everyone will be receptive by the 6th and 7th, though, and distant contacts and new plans are accented on the 9th.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Thursday, with greens that were not exacting and a course receptive to strong iron play, was merely a start.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • The deal let Kaytranada expand his clout in Europe, which at the time was more receptive to his music.
    — Mitchell Kuga, Billboard, 9 June 2023
  • Aspects involving dreamy Neptune lull you into a receptive state of mind between the 25th and 28th, so go with the flow.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Because of that, the mature boars are solitary animals that spend most of their time looking for the next receptive sow.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Woods defines the pre-rut as the time period during which less than 25 percent of does are receptive.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023

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