Example sentences for: justifiable

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

  • The smirk is causing much justifiable worry in Republican circles.

  • Because rumors of a Branch Davidian drug lab were floated at Waco (they later turned out to be false), use of Delta Force troops as advisers in the raid may be legally justifiable.

  • The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as “words” they are far more frequent than many of the “legitimate” words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism . That might be justifiable if there were accurate frequency information available.

  • Jones wrote, “The Lex Talionis, in all civil wars is, perhaps, though cruel, yet legal, and upon many occasion, perfectly justifiable.”

  • In the clip, Kennedy raised the question "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys, whether there was some justifiable reason for me to doubt what had happened and to delay my report."


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