Example sentences for: ability

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

  • The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria to infect and replicate inside host mononuclear phagocytes is key to its ability to establish an infection and cause tuberculosis.

  • In other words, it's not our vocabularies but our ability to string words together that is a distinctively human evolutionary adaptation.

  • Some of us may even take a slightly perverse delight in the ability to rattle off the first 90-odd names of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General, thanks to the jeu d'esprit of a brash young Harvard junior-faculty statistician in the early 1950s.

  • The ability of imagery to forgive, to reconcile, is a good deal more circumscribed--but then, that is true of expression itself.

  • This limits users' ability to find relevant literature prior to 1991.


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