Example sentences for: commendable

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

  • Similarly, countering the commendable If you don't have an old person in the house, buy one , we have the less generous In time of famine the old have teeth and What the devil accomplished in a year, an old woman may accomplish in an hour.

  • He was flying to a wedding--a more commendable pursuit than the one that killed Michael, but nothing like the war that killed Uncle Joe.

  • Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.

  • The $10,000 is a highly commendable goal which can be realized through contributions in whatever amount you can give.

  • The CIA had a very different attitude: Pavitt told us that while the CIA's Bin Ladin unit did"extraordinary and commendable work," his chief of station in London "was just as much part of the al Qaeda struggle as an officer sitting in [the Bin Ladin unit]."


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