How to Use laudable in a Sentence

laudable

adjective

• Improving the schools is a laudable goal.
• That’s a laudable goal, but actions need to match the rhetoric.
  — Stephanie Murphy, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
• This is not to say that all the women running are laudable or up to the job.
  — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019
• And, indeed, this one small firm boasts a laudable record of such work.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• The splurge wasn't just for the sake of a custom gown, but would benefit a laudable cause.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 3 May 2019
• Some of the excitement around these kinds of AI art is laudable, even.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023
• The Bucks' decision was laudable and led the NBA to halt the postseason.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• That’s a laudable goal, but one that will be very hard to deliver on.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• That’s a laudable trait for, say, a relief pitcher who coughs up a home run.
  — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• Young has taken a laudable stance that also sucks for many of his fans.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• All these seem laudable goals, but not all church members are happy about the U.N. ties.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
• No child should consider the mere act of waking to be laudable.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• While making health care more affordable is a laudable goal, it can’t be done on the back of Bayh-Dole.
  — Joseph P. Allen, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• But that point-of-view only makes Hermanus' mission all the more laudable.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• But that point-of-view only makes Hermanus’ mission all the more laudable.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
• Granted, there are those who want to drop weight and bolster strength for health reasons, which is a laudable goal.
  — Faith Salie, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Uthaug’s mission is a laudable one: to provide all the fun of a video game while sparing us the risk of chronic thumb fatigue.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018
• The initiative, however laudable, is just the tip of the iceberg.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• And that's some laudable restraint with a pooch as precious as Eebbers.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• The story construction is laudable, the supporting roles and even the bit roles are superbly cast and played.
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• If nothing else, not hogging the credit that belongs to those who write the jokes and perform the sketches is laudable.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2023
• And host Rich Eisen does laudable work, leveraging the event to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for St. Jude's.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2019
• Though the effort is laudable, Ebersole said, the centers are at best a stopgap with room for just a fraction of the children who need it.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Brands’ is the latest work in a field that, however laudable, has been confined to far corners of the Ivory Tower.
  — Daniel J. Samet, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
• Those gun laws, while laudable, have done little to quench U.S citizens’ thirst for guns.
  — Sue McMillin, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• And this is amid the backdrop of city officials having done a laudable job at keeping the overall city safe from Covid-19.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 9 June 2020
• Intuition will show us what is laughable and what is laudable.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
• Beating Cal was laudable given the circumstances, and having one game this week is a plus.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• But by failing to pass a budget promptly, Congress undercut this laudable attempt to create a steady demand for munitions.
  — Thomas G. Mahnken, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2024
• His complete and total disregard for what most audience members want to hear, especially at a show packed with casual fans like this one, is laudable and extremely rare.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024