Example sentences for: passable

How can you use “passable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The director, Antoine Fuqua, a veteran of Coolio music videos, does a passable slow-motion Woo imitation (Woo is one of the executive producers), but the plot and dialogue are Brand X, and Chow--by turns courtly, worried, and earnest--has nothing of the rock 'n' roll bad boy that put him on the map.

  • The album itself is deemed passable musically--Martin has a "serviceable" voice (Ethan Brown, New York ) and a set of reasonably catchy tunes.

  • The final kilometer or so is passable only by motorcycle or on foot.

  • Alternative names for this maneuver are bridging or foot and backing . Piles of stones ( cairns or stonemen ) are built on peaks and along cols (a saddle or pass ). A `sharp rock ridge' is an arete , sometimes only passable by going a chaval [ à cheval ], that is, `sitting astride the top as on a horse.

  • As a consequence-and in contrast to the situation in the NorthTower-one of the stairwells (A) initially remained passable from at least the 91st floor down, and likely from top to bottom.


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