How to Use explicable in a Sentence

explicable

adjective

• It was thought to be explicable in terms of will and commitment to God.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2016
• Our father had just endured the worst days of his life, indeed was still in the midst of them, and such a lapse ought to be both explicable and forgivable.
  — Justin Taylor, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• All this was explicable in part as a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of voting in the Tory leadership contest against Boris.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 13 July 2019
• The self-driving car suddenly opts to come to a stop, yet the human drivers see no explicable reason for the self-driving car to do so.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• But the eastern connections of the Munda languages seem clear, albeit less explicable than those of the Khasi or the Tibeto-Burman peoples of the far northeast.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
• Some of this is explicable by more or less natural factors.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2017
• This one feels like an explicable blip: the two best players out for large stretches, others out due to era-defining pandemic, a tough schedule.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
• Coca-Cola has also disappeared, for no explicable reason, as has the band Oasis, which may be the movie’s best and most inside-y joke.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• These scenes are not very frightening, or even explicable.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• Life, according to Crick, was an epiphenomenon of physics and chemistry — complex, yes, but still explicable in molecular terms.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Science, after all, is about what is observable, quantifiable, testable, predictable, explicable — and dreams are none of these things.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• The news comes as Twitter has been roiled by market turbulence and Musk's not-entirely-explicable concerns about the number of fake accounts on Twitter.
  — CBS News, 26 May 2022
• Trump’s vilification of Hillary Clinton, Atwood believes, is more explicable when seen through the lens of the Puritan witch-hunts.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Most African Americans align with the Democratic Party for reasons that are explicable in terms of broad attitudes.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 May 2018
• There's a surfeit of waiting around Chicago pools, with staff members barking commands and ordering people form lines for no explicable reason.
  — Laura Pearson, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• Pamfilova’s cynicism is entirely explicable: in Russia, the constitution has rarely been a covenant of good governance between the state and the people.
  — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 9 July 2020
• To do so would be to acknowledge the reality: that most violent or unusual deaths are tragic, yet sadly explicable.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
• These are explicable in their origins and relationship.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
• Miracle, which the dictionary describes as a 'surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency', may be a bit much.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Earlier in Italian history, though, there was a clear and explicable crash in happiness in 1848, with the failure of revolutions intended to unite into a single nation what were then half a dozen disparate states.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• To the contrary, stress, fear, and sadness may be completely explicable reactions to difficult situations, not signs of a pathology.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 8 Sep. 2020
• In other words, your body starts sweating without any explicable reason (like feelings of anxiety, hot temperatures, or exercise).
  — Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 29 June 2022
• Second, the similarity between southwest Wales and northern England is explicable.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2012
• McCracken has a talent for making the imperceptible within the characters just perceptible—not explicit or explicable, those are deadly traps for characters.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Instead, growing divergence between leading central banks is roiling exchange rates, primarily via a sustained and not fully explicable appreciation of the dollar.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• Booming sales of toilet paper is less explicable, however, something psychologists say is purely reactionary.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Some physicists insist that everything, including humanity, is ultimately explicable in terms of particles pushed and pulled by gravity, electromagnetism and other forces.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
• Whatever the reason, there was something striking about an entirely explicable outcome for a change: A generally unassuming incumbent defeated a disgraced former officeholder by a considerable margin.
  — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024