Example sentences for: passable

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

  • 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.

  • Alternative names for this maneuver are bridging or foot and backing . Piles of stones ( cairns or stonemen ) are built on peaks and along cols (a saddle or pass ). A `sharp rock ridge' is an arete , sometimes only passable by going a chaval [ à cheval ], that is, `sitting astride the top as on a horse.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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