How to Use amenable in a Sentence

amenable

adjective

• Of the rag-tag bunch, Ghostemane is among the most amenable to bringing the music of his youth to the forefront.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017
• Native to the Channel Islands, this perennial is amenable to shaping and use as a hedge.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 2 Feb. 2018
• Moderate Democrats, including a few up for election next year in red states, were once thought to be amenable to a compromise.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 20 Dec. 2017
• Trump had seemed amenable to a deal earlier in the day during phone calls, aides said, but shifted his position in the meeting and did not seem interested.
  — The Washington Post, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• President Trump, however, once again seems amenable to breaking with convention.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 12 Jan. 2018
• And both contingents refuse to accept that the filibuster exists, and thus, that any spending bill will need to be amenable to at least nine Democrats in the upper chamber.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Jan. 2018
• There, Republicans are on the whole far less amenable to compromise with Democrats on the matter of immigration.
  — Nash Jenkins, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
• Over the years, working for lengths of time on films that sometimes bombed at the box office, Tolmach since has learned to be amenable to all the new content platforms, including streaming services.
  — Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
• Hickle was amenable to setting a 4 p.m. start time, particularly as the RMWD board is in the midst of filling a vacant seat.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
• The climate is amenable to change; religions often find ways to revive themselves, and the spiritual vacuum in Ireland is real, waiting to be filled.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
  — Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
• The trouble is that Mr Lukashenko might not be amenable.
  — Erasmus, The Economist, 21 July 2019
• Tear it down to, to build something that’s more amenable.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
• That may have made the regime more amenable to his visit.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• Others were more amenable to the project, pointing to the city’s lack of housing.
  — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2024
• So the Mods were amenable when the group approached them for a full partnership.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Although the brand was respected, the wood was not amenable to a sweet sound.
  — Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
• But now, a few things have changed that might make Google more amenable to this kind of feature.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
• Moussallem seemed amenable, but then changed his tune, Shaw said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
• Thompson finished fourth in the NBA in 3-point makes and was amenable to the kind of bench role the Warriors will want him in the future.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• If the Nets are amenable to such a framework, the Sixers have to weigh whether the short-term upside outweighs the long-term risks.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Also, look for their input into how to make the workspace more amenable.
  — John Baldoni, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Set clear, amenable rules of engagement for video calls.
  — Benoni Tagoe, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
• But that doesn't mean that some aspects of the changes dogs have undergone aren't amenable to study.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2019
• That doesn’t mean that all the remaining 37 percent are amenable to full-time WFA.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Sep. 2020
• The French government, which has a 15% stake in Renault, seemed amenable.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• Ian gets really lucky and Brighid seems more than amenable to having a drink with the young man.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
• Palm Beach County voters have been amenable to school taxes in the past.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
• The automaker has been amenable to bespoke commissions from the very beginning, some of which have been remarkable in the extreme.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2024
• That may make the next administration more amenable to working symbiotically with those nations.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024