Example sentences for: acceptable

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

  • Thirty-five words in the preceding paragraph are derived from Indian languages and are listed in standard English dictionaries as acceptable English words.

  • Even short hair was eventually acceptable for women, too, but visibly careful grooming was still the rule for fashionable female heads until the last 15 years or so.

  • Respondents who reported inadequate training in HIV/AIDS treatment also were significantly more likely to agree it was acceptable to refuse to treat a patient for these reasons (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.31–3.

  • Now, even with 2 years of production experience, the supplier continues to have difficulty producing the seeker with acceptable quality.

  • But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).


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