Example sentences for: sensible

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

  • In fact, they're quite sensible.

  • In more sensible times, that's how speed limits were set: Build the road, time traffic on it, determine the speed most people are comfortable driving at, and post that as the limit to encourage uniform speeds, which, unsurprisingly, minimizes accidents.

  • This extremely sensible idea was floated by the New Republic , which attached to the hypothetical force the memorable name "Griefbusters," in a series of editorials from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  • This past Sunday, Showtime presented The Passion of Ayn Rand , with the fierce and smoldering Helen Mirren as the dishy right-wing egomaniac, leaving many otherwise sensible people hungry for the forbidden passions of the libertarians.

  • Just to add another wrinkle, the stylebook of the U.K.-based international news magazine The Economist makes the eminently sensible observation that not all Africans are black; “Africans may be black or white.


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