Example sentences for: estimable

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

  • It is hard to see what has got into the people at Cassell's, for here is another book--this time a superior one--on which they have practised their onomancy: the original title (1992) was Brewer's Names . At least they have not taken to changing the names of the authors of these books, and this one bears that of the estimable lexicographer and onomastician, Adrian Room.

  • Our dear colleague Chatterbox, that estimable muggle, thinks he might, but for other reasons, namely that the Potter books take a benign view of paganism, magic, witchcraft, and other things that scare Christian fundamentalists.

  • If fair value is not estimable, information related to the type and quantity of assets received shall be disclosed in the year received.

  • I cannot recall a more gratuitous grouse than Sarah Kerr's questioning, in an otherwise estimable piece, of the "reader-friendliness" of the Library of America's Gertrude Stein volumes ("What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate").

  • There is a Preface to this book, written by the estimable Janet Whitcut, which I shall get to in a moment.


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