How to Use demonstrable in a Sentence

demonstrable

adjective
  • There is no demonstrable evidence that the treatment is effective.
  • Over the age of 80, three out of four people have a demonstrable loss.
    Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 7 July 2017
  • It’s got to be demonstrable facts that can be laid out with evidence, because that’s what a court of law is gonna look to.
    NBC news, 19 Apr. 2023
  • One needn’t stretch back to slavery in search of demonstrable harm, either.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • And the warming caused by those emissions does have a demonstrable impact on whales.
    Josh Axelrod, Scientific American, 26 June 2024
  • What’s more, he’s made no demonstrable progress in learning during his year and a half in office.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 17 July 2018
  • In his mind, he’s seen progression and the win over the Galaxy is demonstrable proof that it’s been playing well for longer than just one game.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Are any of them, or any of their ilk, demonstrable upgrades from Baker Mayfield?
    Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • If the results are demonstrable that self-driving cars are cleared to be on our roadways, sure, go ahead and ergo proceed.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The first group is scientists who study the brain — the only group that has a demonstrable interest in all kinds of neural signals.
    Anna Wexler, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
  • This has not led to any demonstrable gains in student achievement in these two troubled counties.
    David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But sometimes there are no right answers to a demonstrable pattern of bad questions.
    Washington Post, 1 June 2021
  • The only place where flight shame does seem to have had a demonstrable effect is in Germany—and even then, only on domestic flights.
    Natasha Frost, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Olsson thinks that the demonstrable increase in cases of depression is a good thing.
    Don Riddell, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Indeed, according to Doty, about half the U.S. population between the ages of 65 and 80 have some demonstrable loss of smell.
    David Noonan, Scientific American, 12 June 2017
  • Many of the treatments involved fractures, sometimes severe, and demonstrable signs of pain.
    Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022
  • The effects of climate change are real, demonstrable and extreme.
    Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Grémillon takes the reins of Vivino with a good track record, having previously led demonstrable growth at Booking.com and Airbnb.
    Liz Thach, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • Despite his demonstrable contempt for what the law does and does not permit, its content is not exactly a mystery to him.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • These modes aren't just for show, either; there are demonstrable differences in each setting.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 6 July 2023
  • Lawyers for the 52-year-old Saudi argue, if there’s demonstrable brain damage, the judge should not permit the case to go forward as a capital trial.
    Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The clinic was no longer needed: a demonstrable victory for a legal precedent that no longer stands.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 June 2022
  • Wong said fines and fees are not a demonstrable way of getting library materials back.
    Natalia E. Contreras, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Various concerns, some about safety, overshadowed the demonstrable value of the drug in the opinion of the panel.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2024
  • Investing in sleep research is not just about the few with demonstrable sleep disorders.
    Henry Nicholls, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But style for him, from first to last, served a quest to manifest soul-deep spirituality as a demonstrable fact of life.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In some demonstrable ways, the U.S.-led coalition of nearly 70 countries is hurting the Islamic State badly on this front.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 20 Feb. 2017
  • The physical acts of moving the hands on the steering wheel, or looking out to the racetrack, actually resulted in demonstrable changes in the brain.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2020
  • Still, Roche argues that any demonstrable improvement is a good thing for people with the most severe and advanced breast cancers.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 5 June 2017
  • The character takes demonstrable pleasure in being the best performer on stage, which Domingo conveys by channeling his storied thespian background, and struggles to hide his annoyance and jealousy towards Divine Eye’s innate swagger.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 11 July 2024

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