How to Use justifiable in a Sentence

justifiable

adjective

• But that would have been the right justifiable thing to do that would honor her truth.
  — EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The number would be backed up by jobs that need to be filled, and by state, and include some justifiable refugees.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• Jerry Giesler butted in and declared that the killing was a case of justifiable homicide.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• To many of them, killing someone with such a reprobate mind was justifiable by God’s laws.
  — Time, 7 Nov. 2022
• The May shooting death of a 44-year-old man has been ruled justifiable and no criminal charges will be filed.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2023
• Although few homicides are ruled justifiable, the race of the parties can play a role in such outcomes.
  — Jessica Ander, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• To be justifiable, a war must also be fought with the aim of accomplishing a just cause.
  — Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2022
• As such, the sky-high pricing is not justifiable as based on the said-to-be hollow argument that lives are going to be saved.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• That self-regard is justifiable, though only up to a point.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Of those, two have been ruled justifiable and aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• Christian’s death is the seventh to be ruled justifiable.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2023
• Thomas’s death is the eighth slaying this year to be ruled justifiable out of Birmingham’s 127 homicides.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2022
• On the other end, those online discussed whether Rock deserved the slap or not and if Smith’s actions were justifiable.
  — Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 29 Mar. 2022
• Police ruled his killing — one of 113 that year in Jacksonville — a justifiable homicide.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• Months after the killing, the police classified the death as a justifiable homicide.
  — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 31 Mar. 2022
• Of those, one has been ruled justifiable and therefore is not deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2023
• The festival hoards stayed away from this tiny ski hamlet at the base of the Wasatch Mountains for two years due to justifiable fears of a superspreader event.
  — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• Over the next month, a justifiable pile-on from fans and analysts will continue.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• Facebook may find its decision to ban the Taliban an easy and justifiable one.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2021
• Three #jeopardy games deep and the backlash against my hippie hair and will-this-do dress sense is gathering justifiable strength.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
• The lead detective in the case ruled his actions were justifiable homicide.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2021
• Of those, one has been ruled justifiable and therefore not deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 Feb. 2022
• Of those, two have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• Of those, four have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 30 June 2021
• Of those, five have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2022
• Of those, eight have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2022
• The February shooting death of a 24-year-old man in Birmingham has been ruled justifiable.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• The fact that a planet was in retrograde became a justifiable reason to cancel plans or take a cab or order dessert.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2022
• Of those, 10 have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 20 Aug. 2021
• Of those, 14 have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024