Example sentences for: amiable

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

  • Also, since most specific names contain words that are more descriptive than those used in the names of the various general--like the Latin words for modest, beautiful, amiable , and magnificent , for example--there are not enough to go around, not just for other genera, but for the millions of other living things in all the tribes, families, orders, and classes in the animal and vegetable kingdoms.

  • Brokaw is, by all accounts, an amiable fellow, who can be found of an evening swapping World War II stories with Maureen Dowd.

  • I'm thinking in particular of Frances McDormand's unflappable pregnant cop in Fargo ; John Turturro's Barton Fink, the mediocre leftist playwright who tries to go Hollywood; and in the new film, Jeff Bridges' incarnation of Jeff Lebowski, a k a the Dude, an amiable stoner who is drawn into a Big Sleep -inspired kidnap scheme.

  • M y Son the Fanatic is built on incongruities--on the juxtaposition of fierce Islamic piety and amiable Western dissolution.

  • The only two finalists with any kind of a shot are Miss America--a surprisingly leggy Pat Buchanan--and Miss Germany--an unexpectedly amiable Adolf Hitler.


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