How to Use defensible in a Sentence

defensible

adjective

• The city has a defensible location.
• Both candidates hold defensible positions on the issue.
• Slavery is not morally defensible.
• Under those circumstances, her actions were completely defensible.
• The connections don’t have to be explicit, just defensible.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• There are still defensible reasons for why the Pistons parted with so much to bring Blake to Detroit.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• In that circumstance, Arizona would have a defensible rationale to fire Miller for cause.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• But there isn’t a defensible Republican argument that Obama should have done more.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Less defensible reasons are mere inertia or, even worse, the belief on the part of a few judges that cumbersome formal language is needed to give jurors a sense of the majesty of the law.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• So Kim's intentions must be tested -- that is one reason why Trump's summit gambit with Kim is defensible.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 27 Apr. 2018
• But the rapid cutting at The Denver Post is neither inevitable nor defensible, at least not by anyone with coherent ethics.
  — John Wenzel, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• However, the county does not outline rules for defensible space or vegetation management in many rural areas.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• While some parts of Bosworth’s message may be defensible as pot-stirring hyperbole, others are more difficult to rationalize.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2018
• That would be a defensible deal for Utah, even as the point guard ages.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• But this doesn’t make the Biden bailout any more defensible.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• The goal is to lessen the risk by maintaining a defensible space that does not add fuel to a fire.
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2021
• The selection process was flawed, to say the least, but the outcome is defensible.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
• But that defensible space was no match for what came next.
  — Simret Aklilu, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
• But the Helms hadn't set out to create defensible space.
  — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 24 June 2018
• That’s anger on top of anger over cases that are not very defensible.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2023
• But there are plenty of defensible reasons to stay the course, too.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
• Some of what Yglesias seems to be saying in this tweet is defensible.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Very few in that group find the substance of the impeachment inquiry to be defensible.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• In the world of war into which it has been thrust, Israel has no other defensible choice.
  — James F. Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2023
• And the scripted cleanup pertained only to the least defensible of his comments.
  — Zeke Miller, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
• Give in to the defensible hype with the 11 best early Black Friday fashion deals from Dôen's sale below.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Nov. 2022
• Most homes that burn down in a wildfire are torched this way; that’s why defensible space is not enough, and a house must be hardened against embers, too.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• Mare’s actions as defensible, the series nods at the countless ways in which cops can abuse their powers.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2021
• Try bundling auto and home insurance, creating defensible space and other measures to negotiate somewhat lower rates.
  — Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
• All too often a culture is described as a set of anodyne norms, principles, or values, which do not offer decision-makers guidance on how to make difficult choices when faced with conflicting but equally defensible courses of action.
  — Erin Meyer, Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024