They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.

I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.

Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA
Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet

1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (2001 Perennial Edition), page 8,
They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters.

Air is sensible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Resistance to Bodies moved in it.

The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.

It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a sensible vision of their Saviour.

, Book II, Chapter I
He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

we are now sensible that it would have been absurd

1857, William Fleming, Vocabulary of Philosophyyy
Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.

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