Example sentences for: passable

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

  • The film achieves "not much more than the level of a passable TV movie" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ) and "never quite catches fire" (Robert Koehler, Daily Variety ). (Click here for more info on Usher and here to visit the official site.)

  • 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.

  • It’s passable by car, with a farm gate to open and close, and leads past the site of the ancient Carthaginian and Roman port of Sanitja.

  • This lack of information, combined with the general advice to remain where they were, may have caused civilians above the impact not to attempt to descend, although stairwell A may have been passable.

  • As a consequence-and in contrast to the situation in the NorthTower-one of the stairwells (A) initially remained passable from at least the 91st floor down, and likely from top to bottom.


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