How to Use passable in a Sentence

passable

adjective

• He did a passable job with the assignment.
• The river is passable during the summer months.
• The main road is passable but most others are still covered with snow.
• She plays passable golf but prefers tennis.
• Desert roads that tend to be greasy wet have to be passable.
  — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The trail to the world-class lookout atop the Sierra Buttes is open and passable this week.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
• Christopher still has the size and skill to be a passable backup guard in the NBA.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
• The route is only passable in winter, when the rivers and lakes have frozen over.
  — Victoria Petersen, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, Yeager said, the state will keep the road passable for those who live or work there.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• Streets still have some snow on them so motorists need to drive with care, but the streets are passable.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• When the team played rock music, Cog managed to beat out a passable rhythm on a snare drum.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
• The sound itself is passable, as is the climate and nav system.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• And even this was at best passable with a good price point for a Sonoma County white.
  — Tan Vinh and Owen Bargreen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• When the snow is coming down, the goal is to make roads passable, not perfect, Bruning said.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2020
• The new rules meant the latest Alphafly shoes -- which are believed to have a sole that is 39.5mm thick -- are passable.
  — Matias Grez and George Ramsay, CNN, 1 Oct. 2020
• The last 12 miles are a narrow, winding gravel road passable to sedans.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• That road has been made more passable to young QBs for a variety of reasons.
  — Barry Wilner, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2022
• The broken causeway to Sanibel Island might not be passable until the end of the month.
  — Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
• This is when everything is open and roads are passable.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
• The low frame rate gives footage a choppy feel, there’s no HDR, and night vision is only passable.
  — Simon Hill adrienne So, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• Between Phillips and Patrick Mekari, the team has two linemen who could do a passable job at swing tackle.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• As of Monday, most were passable, though not to their full width, and many driveways remained blocked by berms.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• The lakes and campgrounds are open, the lodges with cabins start opening Friday, and the trail to the world-class lookout at the Sierra Buttes is passable.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
• The roads that have been plowed and sanded and salted were passable Tuesday morning.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
• The attack would happen in the winter so that the hard earth would make the terrain easily passable for tanks.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• The living room was barely passable, and Burgess’s bed was cradled on three sides by crates and shelves of his favorite books and CDs.
  — Camille Baker, Curbed, 5 Apr. 2021
• Most people struggle to achieve even a passable cat’s-eye style look, with a single black wing at the outer corner of the eye.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
• Make sure terrain on the far side is passable before risking the crossing.
  — Sunset Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• They’re being spotted from the air, and then trucks are sent in to take them out wherever roads are passable, the Jouberts say.
  — Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 1 May 2020
• Today, the trail is once again passable from Haa in the west to Trashigang in the east, connecting 400 cultural and historic sites.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024