How to Use definable in a Sentence

definable

adjective

• Not to put that crudely — but there’s a definable goal.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2019
• There was a time in my life when running served a clear and definable purpose.
  — Devin, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2020
• The definable ones suggest Sporting KC isn’t missing the man who led the club in scoring each of the past three seasons.
  — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 29 Sep. 2017
• But the games do need to be good for Netflix — which is not an easily definable trait for Loombe and her team yet.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 June 2022
• Of course this isn’t definable, but there have to be parameters for a site.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
• Players should bet large both with their very best hands and, as bluffs, with some definable percentage of their very worst hands.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• In the immediate days after the killings, the bags were bigger; the remains, more definable.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• In some not-quite-definable way, the film itself is all of a piece with Rogers’s principled gentleness.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
• There may be definable clusters of stars up there which can be seen from Earth as constellations, or there may not be.
  — Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• There was a set of values – that had sort of been there and implicit, but not wrapped up together in any kind of definable boundary – that came to reshape the culture.
  — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2020
• So much of the success in this league is really geared toward a group of guys being tied together in the locker room and having a set of definable skills.
  — Dwain Price, star-telegram.com, 5 May 2017
• One of the things Sundance has long made clear is that there is no single, easily definable festival.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• The leap from image proliferation on social media to a definable increase in tourism was made — even though not a shred of hard data backs up the claim.
  — Christopher Knight Art Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2021
• But in most of her depictions, faces and definable people are largely absent, at least as images.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 17 June 2019
• There’s another layer to this as well, one less definable but no less important.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2020
• And jettisoning silly claptrap about good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, and a clear, easily definable line that demarcates it all.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 May 2021
• This is laudable, and again flying less is a real, definable strategy that companies can easy adopt.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• This format — relaxed, circuitous, able to take in both his own work and also work by others — is particularly well suited to Drake, who’s as definable by his taste as by his sound.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2017
• McCoy and his colleagues believed that more American bloodshed in a conflict without a definable end could no longer be justified.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• The problem of ozone depletion could be addressed and solved simply by eliminating CFCs, at a readily definable cost.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2012
• Ranching’s realm is really, then, definable as being where most people are absent.
  — Jennifer Percy, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Without some definable parameters, your best intentions can get lost in the shuffle.
  — SELF, 30 Dec. 2021
• Why hasn’t anyone considered the definable and better ROI of modifying the existing act?
  — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
• The reason reality shows about hoarding flourished a decade ago, the critic Scott Herring has argued, is that hoarding was a special case in which the larger culture tipped into definable deviance.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Original older models can sell for thousands of dollars, depending on their condition and a definable artist.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
• The cello melody that emerges with falling gestures is instantly memorable but not easily definable.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Unlike cures, which are dramatic and definable—and, therefore, attractive investments—staving off disease in the first place is uneventful and vague, because nothing happens.
  — Madeline Drexler, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
• Interactions between neurons firing in the brain are also an example of a dynamical system — albeit one that’s especially subtle and hard to pin down in a definable list of rules.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2019
• Bargaining is a classic game theory problem, Zollman says, and a strike is a great example of a high-stakes contest between two players with different but definable interests.
  — WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
• Although there have been few concrete, surefire findings that have come out of the study of positive psychology, one success of the field has been to make happiness a definable objective that can be worked for, like money or professional success.
  — Cody Delistraty, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024