How to Use tenable in a Sentence

tenable

adjective

• But the Green Pass has made his life in Venice tenable.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2022
• But the city and the teachers’ union say that the board’s rulings meant that the 2008 deal was no longer tenable.
  — Kate Taylor, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• This isn’t tenable in the long run, and the cracks are already beginning to show.
  — Babu Sivadasan, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Eighty-five shows and hundreds of days on the road weren’t tenable anymore.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 2 June 2022
• Tenable expects to hire 100 people in Dublin over the next two years.
  — The Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2017
• Playing 12-13 is not going to be tenable, and Smith knows it.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• But then Sanders signed with the Braves, enabling him to play for two teams in the same city, which made the double duty more tenable.
  — Ben Baskin, The MMQB, 14 July 2017
• But as the embers of war glow in the region, this gambit becomes less and less tenable.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
• The judges concluded that that was not a tenable standard.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• In such a scenario, the prospect of Biden running for re-election could become less tenable.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 26 Oct. 2022
• Toward the end of the 1960s, many of the fundamental assumptions of the free world framework no longer seemed tenable.
  — Peter Slezkine, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
• If those guys are hitting their outside shots, Gibson’s ground-bound, close-to-the-hoop game becomes a bit more tenable.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• This ought not to be tenable in the leader of a democratic republic.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
• This kind of timeline is not tenable when urgent change is needed.
  — Sumant Sinha, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Yet it's always faced the question of whether its business model was tenable.
  — Jon Swartz, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2017
• By the 19th century such beliefs were no longer tenable.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Five Star’s refusal to support the government was enough to convince Draghi that the coalition was no longer tenable.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• In short, Elon Musk’s worst nightmare may be more tenable than anyone imagined.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 8 June 2018
• The time may be approaching when that clever maneuver is no longer tenable.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• And in the process, made that potential 2025 entry date into the SEC a bit more tenable for an impatient legion of Longhorns fans.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Sep. 2021
• It's been a fine offseason in Houston with Crane leading the way, but such a strategy isn't tenable long-term.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 22 Dec. 2022
• If there were a handful of cheap prospects ready to come up and help bolster a winner, that payroll might be tenable for new owners wanting to take a stand.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 May 2017
• Kapoor’s perspective on the future of art and AI is probably the most tenable and desirable.
  — Annie Brown, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• Staying there isn't a tenable, long-term solution, but Delos Reyes is grateful for the shelters and the kind workers there.
  — Madison Park, CNN, 21 Oct. 2017
• Occupants find plenty of legroom and knee clearance, and the flat floor makes the middle position tenable.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 Apr. 2023
• Again, this is a rather stilted way of making use of self-driving cars and does not seem especially tenable.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• When the lies were no longer tenable, the Chinese government pivoted.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 27 Mar. 2020
• As a live performer, Meat Loaf continued to tour throughout the 2000s , though a series of falls and illnesses made the road less tenable in his final years.
  — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
• Whether this is a tenable position for BMW longer-term remains unclear.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
• While he’s been effective when healthy this year, throwing together a spread pick-and-roll offense around him on the fly probably isn’t tenable.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024