How to Use teachable in a Sentence
teachable
adjective- The book's style makes it very teachable.
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There will be many teachable points when the film is reviewed.
— Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2021 -
The Office, Grace & Frankie) pumps the brakes one too many times to make way for a teachable moment.
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 May 2022 -
Stunt or not, Warren put Bloomberg on the spot and made it a teachable moment.
— Ephrat Livni, Quartz at Work, 21 Feb. 2020 -
That was more than 15 years and countless teachable lessons ago.
— Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018 -
There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable moments are heard.
— Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022 -
For her, the carving presents a teachable moment for her nine-year-old son.
— Sonam Vashi, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020 -
Who needs a teachable moment when there are monsters at the bus stop?
— Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023 -
A retro-GeekDad like me longs for a teachable moment like that.
— Ken Denmead, WIRED, 13 May 2008 -
Pixar movies are full of teachable moments for the modern age, but the older movies can be, too.
— refinery29.com, 15 June 2018 -
But the founders of the Druid City Garden Project looked at the mess and saw another teachable moment.
— Southern Living, 12 July 2011 -
But the founders of the Druid City Garden Project looked at the mess and saw another teachable moment.
— Southern Living, 1 May 2017 -
This is a teachable moment: if you’re lost, don’t do either of these things.
— Wes Siler, Outside Online, 27 Oct. 2021 -
Benjamin follows him and tries to force him to see this as a teachable moment.
— Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 22 June 2021 -
This twilight for the anti-Trump idols should be a teachable moment in two ways.
— Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021 -
All of this may add up to something of a teachable moment for the fast-fashion model.
— Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017 -
The loss to Cal provided the Huskies’ receivers with lots of teachable moments.
— oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019 -
The father-of-two said the chants were a teachable moment for his 5-year-old son, Draymond Jamal Green.
— Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2022 -
Quinn watched the program this year and found teachable moments for players.
— Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021 -
Why not make this a teachable moment and try to instill Darwin’s concept of survival of the fittest?
— Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019 -
This is a teachable moment for those opposed to Civil War Days.
— Charles Selle, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019 -
The Times’s crossword audience to be, can be used as a teachable moment.
— New York Times, 1 May 2022 -
Johnson-Pitt turned it into a teachable moment for both of them.
— Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023 -
For some, the world of Wakanda offers teachable moments.
— Mike Jordan, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022 -
With 21 turnovers, the Wolverines had plenty of teachable moments.
— Paul Nasr, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021 -
Which doesn’t mean the film is some kind of terrible black mark on his record; there are more than a few good nuggets in all those teachable moments.
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019 -
In classic black-ish fashion, the episode ends with a teachable moment that comes full circle.
— refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018 -
The result isn’t just a new set of skills in the robot repertoire, but teachable robots, that can be deployed for new tasks on short turn-around.
— IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023 -
To the nope nope nope nope community, KBH is a teachable moment.
— Michelle Weber, Longreads, 23 Apr. 2018 -
The most important thing Dallas can do is find a player who is teachable.
— Sean Collins, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
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