How to Use answerable in a Sentence

answerable

adjective

• By mandate, the Fed is answerable to the people of the United States.
  — Peter S. Goodman, Keith Bradsher and Neil Gough, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• John was soon made chief eye, answerable only to the chairman and the priest.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Some of these questions may have — maybe — been more answerable.
  — Megan Stielstra, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2018
• The fleet would not be answerable to EU rules, and would hold Russian insurance.
  — Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
• McGuire said if the bill clears the Senate, the city would have to call an election to amend the charter to make the human resources director answerable to the mayor.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
• The Agojie were empowered elites answerable only to the king.
  — Susan X Jane, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2022
• There is something in Putin that rejects governance that is not answerable to him.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 29 Jan. 2018
• These and related measures were meant to make Congress more answerable to the public.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• The stated premise is to build a school culture in which everybody is answerable to everyone else.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
• So here are very easily answerable questions for you Steve Case.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
• The postmaster general serves at the pleasure of the board of governors and is therefore not answerable to the president.
  — Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2021
• The fourth charter change ordinance would call an election to amend the charter to make the human resources director answerable to the mayor.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 18 May 2018
• My answer to your question on trade is best answerable with another question: For whom?
  — cleveland.com, 29 Dec. 2017
• But a secret society—with its own laws and norms, answerable solely to its own members—can’t exist in a democracy for long if those norms aren’t in line with the rest of the country’s.
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
• For each pair of entries that are connected, one is clued straightforwardly, and answerable on its own.
  — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• Effects seem barely answerable to causes, and staged encounters are heaped one upon the next.
  — Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• These new-age apps, advocates say, would be more answerable to users and outside the control of internet giants like Google and Facebook.
  — Klint Finley, WIRED, 9 July 2019
• Those people will be answerable obviously to the voters at some point.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 26 Apr. 2021
• In addition, the leader is also answerable for the collective actions, behaviors and morale of the team.
  — Thomas Lim, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• Its government, to be sure, would be answerable to Beijing, which also had power of approval over the city’s leadership.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• An open question, not answered by the Treasury report or answerable in the short-window in which the cuts are being pushed through, is whether this is the largest tax cut in history for corporations.
  — Sam Petulla, CNN, 15 Dec. 2017
• The only question presently answerable is whether or not the team will come into the office after midnight and set about studying the data, or wait for more civilized hours of the morning.
  — David W. Brown, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• The dispute raises some troubling, and not yet fully answerable questions.
  — Feargus O'Sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
• But the threat of prison, the arrest of protest leaders and an emergency decree has not deterred the protest movement, which demands monarchical reform and to make the King answerable to the constitution.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
• But her question is never quite answered — or even, perhaps, answerable.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Still, the scenario the nation now finds itself in poses lots of hypothetical questions, some answerable, some less so.
  — Louis Jacobson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2020
• The company will be answerable to shareholders and customers.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
• The Cherokee, in other words, were answerable only to the federal government, which in turn must honor its treaties with the Native Americans and protect them on their lands.
  — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 13 June 2017
• Members of the Providence School Board are mayor-appointed and not answerable to the general public.
  — Bradly J. Vanderstad, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Rain becomes more probable as Friday wears on, but there are questions about the timing and intensity, which may not be answerable for a couple more days.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024