How to Use admirable in a Sentence

admirable

adjective

• Loyalty was her most admirable quality.
• At the time, that way of thinking still seemed admirable.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
• The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
• The amount of growth the character has shown over the last six episodes has been admirable.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
• On a smaller scale, even the admirable Torey Krug has moved on.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• The beauty of mourning, with the advantage of hindsight, is to be able to take the admirable and leave the rest.
  — Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
• The Patriots did an admirable job corralling Allen much of the day.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• That, to me, is the most admirable and applicable thing of all.
  — Christine Werthman, Billboard, 26 June 2024
• Having the willingness to do it is an admirable trait, but that would lead him to a sort of death.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
• Those workers’ care and respect for the Olympians and those of us who will be around them for the next three weeks is admirable.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2022
• What was most admirable about these new pieces was the relaxed feel of each garment.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Sep. 2023
• That’s admirable ambition, and a lot of it worked very well.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• Our take: The amount of training this requires is admirable.
  — Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
• This is both an admirable sentiment and an easy one for Lear to have had.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
• Long ago were the days when only a negative STD test was the mark of an admirable date.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
• The intent to improve is admirable—who doesn't want to be better, faster, and smarter?
  — Stephen Miles, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• Your high standards are admirable, and those freshmen are lucky to have you.
  — cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021
• Those are admirable goals, even if they can’t always be achieved.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
• On the other side of the football, the defense did an admirable job on Jackson and the Ravens’ offense.
  — Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2020
• But that’s just one of many of this salad’s admirable features.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Mar. 2025
• Just getting up and getting on planes at that age is admirable.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Your life actually strikes me as admirable: the kids, the pets, the ferrets.
  — George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
• The actions of the large banks are admirable, but clearly, this is only a short-run answer.
  — Maureen O’Hara, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Ravens did an admirable job bottling up the MVP candidate, but not long enough.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2024
• While the goal is admirable, the logic of the measure—which was championed by the Trump White House—is hard to defend.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
• Some of Ness’s work in this role was admirable, like busting crooked precinct captains.
  — Sam Kean, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• All of these flourishes are done with an admirable straight face.
  — Brian Feldman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Is following the heart there an admirable act, or a selfish one?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• Snow White deserved an update of sorts, and this is an admirable new take that certainly is one of the better live-action remakes from Disney.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
• Her fearlessness in tackling new challenges, both vocally and on bass, is admirable.
  — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025