Example sentences for: passable

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

  • The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.

  • For stairwell A remaining passable, see Civilian interview 8 (Mar.

  • Tom Waits' first album in six years, which ditches the junkyard noise experimentation of his previous releases for a blues approach, gets passable reviews from Rolling Sone and Spin . "Waits seems to have peaked as a songwriter with 1985's Rain Dogs ," writes Ben Ratliff, "and he's still writing outtakes from that record" ( Rolling Stone ). Spin 's Sarah Vowell says, "Waits' coolie raps often feel a little fake, like he's working at having a good time."

  • 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.

  • Knowing that the stairway was initially passable from at least the 91st floor down, we can conclude that it was likely open from top to bottom, on floors farther removed from the impact.


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