How to Use liable in a Sentence

liable

adjective

• If someone gets hurt on your property, you could be liable.
• Rodriguez found the Air Force was 60 percent liable for the shooting, and placed the rest of the blame on the shooter.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2023
• The 50-year-old actress was found not liable in the lawsuit on Thursday.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• So sue me: Who should be held liable when AI makes mistakes ...
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2023
• Days before the trial began, the judge in the case found the defendants liable for fraud.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
• All three should be held liable, the court filing stated.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• Part of the issue is that the man can take too much off the trees, which residents in the neighborhood are liable for.
  — Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
• He was later found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the families.
  — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
• He was found liable for the deaths of Brown Simpson and Goldman in a civil trial.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• The intrepid flee to Dublin; those who stay are liable to dredge up an income selling meth.
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• TikTok and the app stores would have been held liable for the violations — not the Montanans using the app.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Spacey was found not liable for battery in the civil trial.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
• Thomas was later dropped as a defendant, and a judge found the county not liable.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
• The case turns on when a parent company is liable for the actions of its subsidiary.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 11 Aug. 2023
• Here's what to know Could a builder be liable if mortgage rates go up before a house is complete?
  — Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
• If Nigeria backed out at any point before the full 20-year term of the contract, it could be held liable for damages.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• At this stage, the judge will only determine whether Google is liable for the antitrust charges brought against it.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 3 May 2024
• The purchase was approved, bit the store is not holding the resident liable.
  — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2023
• Williams had also sued the city of Lemon Grove, which was similarly found not liable.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Elon Musk was not liable for damages to Tesla's stock based on a 2018 tweet, a jury ruled Friday.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2023
• Harley-Davidson has been found liable in a lawsuit stemming from the death of a trike rider from upstate New York.
  — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• He was later found liable for defamation and ordered to pay over $1 billion for spreading the hoax.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2023
• For some, e-scooters for rent are an eyesore, liable to cause accidents on and off the sidewalk.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• The three contractors spent a year arguing over who should be held liable.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Jones and his company were found liable for damages last year.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
• In its motion, the city argued plaintiffs failed to meet the legal threshold for the district to be held legally liable.
  — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• Robinson was not found liable for any of the accusations in De Niro's lawsuit against her.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
• An elegant hand — all ones and nines (akin to the aces and kings in a deck of cards), a flush of chi, a pong of every wind — is liable to bankrupt one’s opponents.
  — Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The bill, adopted by the Senate, makes Italians who seek surrogacy in other countries liable for prosecution on their return home.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 17 Oct. 2024
• Even if the payor is not within the personal jurisdiction of the Court and cannot be held in contempt, a payor which does not remit funds according to the assignment order might become liable to the creditor on some theory or another.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024