Example sentences for: estimable

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

  • 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").

  • Writing in the New Republic on behalf of hacks everywhere, the otherwise estimable Matthew Cooper (now bound for Newsweek ) calls the Wound Dole's "Rosetta stone."

  • 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.

  • Many estimable people are devoting themselves to ridding our popular culture of obscenity, sex, and violence.

  • MEASURABLE - Can be determined with reasonable certainty or is reasonably estimable.


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