How to Use certifiable in a Sentence

certifiable

adjective

• Anyone who would run in front of a car like that is certifiable.
• We called in a certifiable expert on legal issues.
• A handful of cinema's certifiable masterpieces are in need of restoration.
• And some on the Bib list were certifiable head-scratchers.
  — (allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times), San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2019
• But to lead this Lamb to DP slaughter, even in a spring training game, was a certifiable conquest.
  — Carl Steward, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2017
• As perhaps one of the most admired tech icons since Steve Jobs walked the earth, Musk brings a certifiable cachet to Trump’s advisory team.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2017
• Both are certifiable at this point: Wendy’s getting cozy with a drug lord and Marty’s trying to flip a federal agent.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• Gordon was, basically, a certifiable bust his first four years in the big leagues.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 8 Aug. 2017
• This would be especially true for a Knicks team that doesn’t have anything close to a certifiable franchise player at the moment.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Corbin is an outlier in the business, eschewing the chance to sell extra t-shirts by embracing his role as a certifiable bad guy.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• The deal comes with Van Gundy running out of time to deliver some certifiable progress in the fourth season of a lucrative five-year deal to serve as Detroit’s coach and team president.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• This year especially, which will go down in the history books as a certifiable dumpster fire, nails are proving to be more of a delight than ever.
  — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 15 Dec. 2020
• This week, Jake arrests and interrogates her, and Maya appears to be as certifiable as ever.
  — Akilah Green, The Root, 19 May 2017
• Goaltender Petr Mrazek has been inconsistent, and the defensive corps has no certifiable stars.
  — Neal Boudette, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2017
• Back in the '60s, somewhere in a TV production office, a certifiable genius came up with the brilliant, if not slightly unusual, idea to combine game shows and grocery shopping.
  — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 7 July 2020
• Will the city and Mayor Rahm Emanuel be forced to take significant, tough actions, quantifiable, certifiable actions?
  — The Hive, 13 Jan. 2017
• The Florida Panthers defenseman is 21 years old, a certifiable youngster who turned the drinking age in February and shed his teenager label the year before.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• Image Panama scored only one certifiable goal in the tournament (its one goal in Thursday’s game was credited as a Tunisia own goal), which would have brought shame to the Brazils of the world but was celebrated as a remarkable achievement.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2018
• That's quite a disco ball—and definitely a certifiable wonder.
  — Jenna Blaha, Marie Claire, 7 Dec. 2015
• In the most basic terms, an NFT is a token that represents certifiable ownership of a specific, unique digital asset.
  — Alison McCauley, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• In an online culture where deception is the norm, the illusion of certifiable honesty provided by polygraph machine feels unique, almost taboo.
  — Wired, 19 Sep. 2019
• With more than 10 million subscribers now, Disney+ is already a certifiable streaming behemoth.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 22 Dec. 2019
• Shanahan may be an entitled coach who has attracted controversy at every one of his stops in the NFL, but the 37-year-old is also a certifiable football genius and the man behind the greatest season in franchise history.
  — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• In reality, only a handful of stem cell treatments, using certifiable stem cells, are allowed by the Food and Drug Administration — and those all involve some version of bone marrow or blood cell transplant.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Dec. 2018
• The Pelicans have plenty of options, but few certifiable solutions.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Vampire Weekend, both a critical darling and certifiable crowd-pleaser, has consistently released great material – and all of it was on display at the Music Elevates stage just as the sun set.
  — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 11 July 2022
• Then there’s a subcategory of people who are disturbed and running the gamut from disturbed all the way to certifiable, mentally ill, untreated schizophrenia or other illnesses.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
• Investing in electric vehicles or EVs is an example of hoping to profit from a certifiable trend, fueled by reactions to climate change and rising gasoline prices.
  — Next Avenue, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• The notion of clinical insanity or certifiable madness is one that only became current in the 19th century.
  — chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017
• Plenty of research has shown that attractive people are heavily rewarded in all aspects of life; beauty is a certifiable privilege.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021

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