How to Use acceptable in a Sentence

acceptable

adjective

• She plays an acceptable game of tennis.
• It was an acceptable performance, although not an outstanding one.
• The key, of course, is to give your cat a place to scratch that both of you find acceptable.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 10 Sep. 2023
• But even 3-3 would be acceptable and keep them in the hunt.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
• In that case, the scrambling of words might seem to be acceptable.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• If the Heat finds an acceptable offer in the next few days, the team would take it.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
• And will the language the developer wants in the ENA be acceptable to the city?
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Will it be considered acceptable at the end of the day?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• Rice isn’t the only acceptable venue for these crispy cubes—far from it.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• The point is, things are on the move, and accepting the status quo shouldn’t be acceptable.
  — Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• In Steve’s mind, buying new tools (think a welder or a miter saw) to fix things is acceptable.
  — Karen Kreider Yoder, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The cost of the effort would be low, the risks acceptable, the payoffs substantial.
  — Douglas J. Feith and John Hannah, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
• The idea of what’s acceptable in comedy has changed a lot.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
• But Sitake didn’t find that to be an acceptable answer.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• There is no way a war can be acceptable in the 21st century.
  — ABC News, 1 May 2022
• So, not acceptable and just a poor performance across the board.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Be very clear about what is and isn’t acceptable, and then be prepared to follow through.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Gone are the days when a cold beer or a glass of wine were the only socially acceptable ways to unwind.
  — Joshua Adragna, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
• An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable!
  — Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 23 Feb. 2025
• But Cuban sources told The Times that such an arrangement would not be acceptable.
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• That means that the wealthy part of the world has to make ecological room for the poor to catch up to an acceptable standard of living.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 17 July 2022
• The shows were quite punky, in your face, anarchic and pushed the envelope of what was acceptable.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• Koehn said that more work needs to be done on the culinary side to make those types of food acceptable to the general public.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
• And there’s the rub: when Waters stuck to rock star accoutrements that were acceptable in both the ‘80s and the present day (Guitar solos!
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 7 June 2023
• Paul was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable.
  — Megan Thomas, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• The goal is to confirm the theory that a 75-decibel boom will be acceptable.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 25 July 2022
• After the s--- Scroll and Key had pulled last year — not the drugs, of course; that was perfectly acceptable according to the rules of Lethe.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• They were taught that the way our hair naturally comes out of our head is not acceptable.
  — As Told To Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2023
• An acceptable mistake can’t live in a single department.
  — Rebecca Shaddix, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• Administration officials want to dictate what questions to ask and which evidence is acceptable to fit their worldviews and further their aims.
  — Andrew V. Papachristos, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025