Example sentences for: sensible

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

  • Those write-offs were generally described as sensible, since Iridium may very well turn out to be a complete bust, and Motorola needs to make sure it has enough money on hand to account for its losses from the investment.

  • I spent some time ferreting about in the new material and am pleased to report (as I suspected) a sane and sensible approach (in chapter 15) to such topics as “The trend towards informality” (the language, even in Britain, is loosening up), “The objections to sexist language” (“Present usage is unstable.

  • That seems to me to be a sensible approach, since the only way properly to investigate a surname is to go back through the male line as far as possible, noting the various spellings of the name, where the family was living in past centuries, and so on.

  • Among the most sensible options are a slight increase in the retirement age (in keeping with growing life expectancy), a mild means-test (in keeping with principles of fairness), and an adjustment in the Consumer Price Index (in keeping with economic reality).

  • It is difficult to make any sensible connection between the lives of authors and their creations.


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