How to Use believable in a Sentence

believable

adjective

• The goal was not to go for 1970s on the nose, but to date things a few years prior to make the world feel believable.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• All the questions posed by the case are made believable by the puncture in the old blood vial.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• The two bicker about whether or not the ruse even looks believable.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2018
• To build a believable bronze, dust the highest points of your face: the top of the cheekbones, (lightly) across the forehead, and down the bridge of the nose.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 24 Feb. 2023
• So, my whole thing was to make the story very believable.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• But the Spurs are 3-1 with a -0.9 net rating right now, which isn’t believable at all.
  — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• That the O’Neils desire vengeance is believable enough.
  — Tod Goldberg, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
• There’s not a minute in Mudbound that doesn’t feel deeply felt and believable.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 30 July 2024
• These horrors are all too believable, and that is part of the problem.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Once the two spoke on the phone, the reality was more clear but no more believable.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 18 June 2019
• The result: their speedy courtship is more believable, less creepy.
  — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
• While the plot leak seems believable, there’s no way to verify any of this right now.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Oct. 2021
• So the notion people are drifting in and out of time in that city seems very believable.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
• So, why was the story of Theranos so believable in the first place?
  — Michael J. Joyner, STAT, 24 May 2018
• Which may make her version of events just that much more believable.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Showing through images and videos makes the words far more believable to the viewer.
  — Yec, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Dafoe had his costar slap him in real life around 20 times to help make the action look more believable!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• The secret to making the faux flecks equal parts believable and wearable?
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2020
• Kya’s crushes and heartbreaks are some of the only parts of Where the Crawdads Sing that are close to believable.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• In the heat of the moment, the way that fight is portrayed on-screen comes across as a believable way to give texture to his story.
  — Daniel Starkey, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2018
• In some cases, the caller might even know your name and address, which makes the call sound more believable.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
• Scott as David/Buddy plays the part with wild abandon, believable to his core.
  — Michelle F. Solomon and, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
• As beloved as the show has become, it's also known for its not-so-believable plot points.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 July 2021
• At a Chicago-believable $4 a gallon, that’s $180 a month in gas.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
• First, states need to threaten a response that is both scary and believable.
  — Erica Borghard, Wired, 17 Dec. 2020
• Some are easy to spot while others are more believable.
  — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2024
• But so there was something about that that was believable.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• Despite the efforts to make the chess scenes believable, there are still areas in which the series comes up short.
  — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• Upon their return to Berlin, the couple hail a taxi and the driver turns out to be Nila’s uncle — a coincidence that falls just short of believable.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
• This was and is a groundbreaking retelling of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, with a much more believable approach to the characters and especially the mecha designs.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025