How to Use usable in a Sentence

usable

adjective
  • Is any of this junk usable?
  • Keep in Mind The gabled roof limits the amount of usable space.
    Laura Kristine Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Some of that salt, because of the way it is stored, may not be usable.
    cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a big hump to make room for the 6.1 kWh battery pack, of which 4.8 of that is usable.
    Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Once cleaned and sorted, the usable bricks will be sent back.
    Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022
  • Most of the high school campus is usable, but the gym was destroyed.
    NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • While no one was hurt, the tent was no longer usable, and his bike was broken.
    Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The point is to get rid of waste, to transform it into a usable outcome.
    Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
  • For years, the team was unable to extract usable DNA from the samples.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The mini-loft here was added to add some extra usable space.
    Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 28 June 2023
  • The wide frame and belt provide 55% more usable walking space.
    Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And as long as Choke Point is a doable, usable tool, there will be politicians that use it both ways.
    Roger Huang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Like some competitors, the third-row seats are usable and that’s it.
    James Raia, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • That means usable luggage space even with all seats in use.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 31 May 2022
  • That change alone could make Google News more usable for many people.
    Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG, 22 June 2022
  • Sometimes 80 percent of the garments in a bale are usable.
    Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This will help clear up usable space for the essentials.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 23 June 2022
  • Metabolism is an impulse that makes sense at the end of the usable world.
    Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • Though the woody parts of the stems are too tough and fibrous to chop (only the leaves are usable), the soft, flexible tips can be chopped up with the leaves.
    Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The hope is that this extreme recoil is a bug and that the dev team will fix it up within the next few hours to make these weapons usable.
    Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the same amount as the Taycan Cross Turismo and is only usable for the smallest items.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This may mean stocks of any more recent usable tanks are running low.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • As well as usable by athletes for recruiting and so forth and so on.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In December, 45% of sales were usable cannabis, or flower, while vapes made up 35% of sales.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Pitchfork was old, with roots that date back to what feels like the beginning of the usable internet.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Because the stand lifts your devices up to eye level, you're left with more usable desk space for your WFH set up.
    Ellen McAlpine, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • One aspect of this is how easy the Fairphone 5 is to repair, with the aim of keeping it usable for longer and, hence, out of landfill.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Architects at FitzGerald have to consider the floor-plate size of the building—or the amount of usable square footage.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • While going through garbage looking for usable food, Mr. Shaw was shocked by how much high-quality food was going to waste.
    Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Graphics were a step below the top tier, but generally usable for most purposes.
    PCMAG, 29 July 2024

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