How to Use amenable in a Sentence

amenable

adjective

• Atlantic salmon, through intensive breeding programs, emerged as the species most amenable.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Many of those problems would be amenable to policy or legislative fixes.
  — chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Hughes, though, was amenable to an impromptu Friday night patrol.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• One subtype of an arrhythmia may be more dangerous than another, one may be more amenable to ablation and so on.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 22 Sep. 2017
• In bowerbirds, for example, females have used choice preferences to make males less aggressive and more amenable.
  — Michael Forsberg, National Geographic, 18 June 2017
• McKay's screenplay ticks off the days to the big game, with the amenable Jose passing up one opportunity after another to break the bad news to his teammates.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2017
• The study, published in the journal Science Advances, identifies a series of gene mutations that may make your puppy more amenable to playing with people.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• As Grandma Blanche inhaled one last time, Grandpa John was still over there at the window trying to coax the mess of slats into place, as if darkness were more amenable to life.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2017
• Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
  — Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
• The trouble is that Mr Lukashenko might not be amenable.
  — Erasmus, The Economist, 21 July 2019
• Tear it down to, to build something that’s more amenable.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
• That may have made the regime more amenable to his visit.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• Others were more amenable to the project, pointing to the city’s lack of housing.
  — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2024
• So the Mods were amenable when the group approached them for a full partnership.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Although the brand was respected, the wood was not amenable to a sweet sound.
  — Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
• Of the rag-tag bunch, Ghostemane is among the most amenable to bringing the music of his youth to the forefront.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017
• But now, a few things have changed that might make Google more amenable to this kind of feature.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
• Moussallem seemed amenable, but then changed his tune, Shaw said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
• Thompson finished fourth in the NBA in 3-point makes and was amenable to the kind of bench role the Warriors will want him in the future.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• If the Nets are amenable to such a framework, the Sixers have to weigh whether the short-term upside outweighs the long-term risks.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Also, look for their input into how to make the workspace more amenable.
  — John Baldoni, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Set clear, amenable rules of engagement for video calls.
  — Benoni Tagoe, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
• But that doesn't mean that some aspects of the changes dogs have undergone aren't amenable to study.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2019
• That doesn’t mean that all the remaining 37 percent are amenable to full-time WFA.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Sep. 2020
• The French government, which has a 15% stake in Renault, seemed amenable.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• Ian gets really lucky and Brighid seems more than amenable to having a drink with the young man.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
• Palm Beach County voters have been amenable to school taxes in the past.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
• Beyond that, false claims about the virus are often cut-and-dry, and therefore more amenable to fact-checks.
  — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 9 Apr. 2020
• The automaker has been amenable to bespoke commissions from the very beginning, some of which have been remarkable in the extreme.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2024
• Many Russia observers were surprised that Moscow would move to seal the deal now instead of waiting out the U.S. election to see if a more amenable administration would come into power.
  — Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024