Example sentences for: passable

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • 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.


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