Example sentences for: liable

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

  • Obnoxious means, or rather meant, `exposed or liable to harm, vulnerable.

  • directly liable to pay the assessment, fee, or charge in question."

  • 2) Even if an employee does not suffer adverse job consequences for rejecting a supervisor's advances, the employer can be held liable unless a) the employer shows it "exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior" and b) the employee "unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities."

  • President Clinton proposed new federal gun control legislation . It would raise the legal age for handgun possession to 21, prohibit juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons, require trigger locks, make parents criminally liable for "knowingly or recklessly" giving their kids access to guns used to kill or injure, and extend background checks to gun show patrons and people who try to buy explosives.

  • The conservative spin: Schools will now be held liable for garden-variety taunting.


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