How to Use viable in a Sentence

viable

adjective

• Is she a viable candidate?
• He could not suggest a viable alternative.
• The viable seeds are heavy and will sink to the bottom of the jar.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
• Even worse, the seeds can remain viable in the soil for years.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024
• The effort was canceled in 1983, and the method deemed not viable.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
• Plus to be a viable business as an over-the-air network.
  — Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• The Zone needs a certain number of students to be viable.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
• This is meant to be a stepping stone to be able to scale up and match with the gene sequence and see if this is viable for H5N1.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The town is very viable, new businesses are coming in all the time.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• So, to assess if an idea is viable, the person who thinks of the idea should create a one-sheet right away.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
• The leaves and twigs on the major branches of tree, however, have all been burnt and are no longer viable.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Zoo officials say the park didn’t have a viable breeding pair of the monkeys for many years.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• But Travis Bickle is still out there as a viable avatar of our culture.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022
• But your new agreement, signed and dated by both of you, is viable and protects both of you.
  — Jann Blackstone, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• For the product to work, there must be a viable hair follicle under the skin.
  — Rebecca Deczynski, Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• To take advantage of this, back one of the two viable teams with plus money odds to advance.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• If the district is to remain viable, this trend must be reversed.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
• And Hamas still represents a viable threat to the Israeli people.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
• The 140-year-old coastal rail line is the only viable route for passenger and freight trains between San Diego and the rest of the United States.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
• And this could make the medicine, which is only viable for about 2% of ALS patients, much harder to win approval.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
• One of those people [on those 10 dates] could be a viable partner for you because that's a lot of people.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Marino’s first reaction was that the idea was not viable — for a film, sure, but not for a party.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
• This option is a viable choice for all different kinds of soils such as clay, dirt, or sand.
  — Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2024
• Get started, with pilot efforts that will show whether the idea is viable.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Some of that golden glow has transferred to his group, keeping them viable.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2022
• Without a viable shot creator next to Curry, a 6-foot-3 guard has to do it all on offense.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
• For that, about 20 viable projects have been identified.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• Whether that’s through a lack of viable acts or reluctance from the festival, Fred again..
  — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 5 July 2024
• With the Soviet Union defeated, there appeared to be no viable alternative to the U.S.-led liberal world order.
  — Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
• As performance poetry has become more popular, especially for marginalized communities in the US, its growth requires viable venues and mentors for those voices to be nurtured effectively.
  — David Silverberg, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025