How to Use teachable in a Sentence

teachable

adjective
  • The book's style makes it very teachable.
  • 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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