“Movement, sentience, and self-conscious thought are the basic capabilities of the human life form.”

“There is no ground here for theories of animate sentience, no need to disturb the smooth pool of our anoesis.”

“Surely humans have the ability to intervene in any number of moral and ethical issues purely by virtue of their sentience?”

“But the fact is that universal sentiency and a general awareness are recognised everywhere as existing and as developing.”

“Roof and walls had attached themselves to his sentiency, even as the shell of the snail is attached to its pulp.”

“An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.”

“The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.”