Example sentences for: passable

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

  • Once the South Tower was hit, civilians on upper floors wasted time ascending the stairs instead of searching for a clear path down, when stairwell A was at least initially passable.

  • About 2 km (about a mile) beyond, a passable dirt track leads to Museo La Isabelica, a 19th-century coffee-plantation finca (country house) with a workshop, original furniture, and a concrete garden where coffee beans were once laid out to dry.

  • USA Today 's Mike Clark calls the coming-of-age story set at an orphanage in 1940s Maine "passive but passable."

  • The director, Antoine Fuqua, a veteran of Coolio music videos, does a passable slow-motion Woo imitation (Woo is one of the executive producers), but the plot and dialogue are Brand X, and Chow--by turns courtly, worried, and earnest--has nothing of the rock 'n' roll bad boy that put him on the map.

  • Fortunately, my Gore and Clinton are solid, and I think I'll have a passable Bush.


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