How to Use laudable in a Sentence

laudable

adjective

• Improving the schools is a laudable goal.
• That’s a laudable goal, but actions need to match the rhetoric.
  — Stephanie Murphy, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
• Like Stephan, Gore had a laudable record marred by stains.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
• This is not to say that all the women running are laudable or up to the job.
  — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019
• And, indeed, this one small firm boasts a laudable record of such work.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• The splurge wasn't just for the sake of a custom gown, but would benefit a laudable cause.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 3 May 2019
• Some of the excitement around these kinds of AI art is laudable, even.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023
• The Bucks' decision was laudable and led the NBA to halt the postseason.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• That’s a laudable goal, but one that will be very hard to deliver on.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• That’s a laudable trait for, say, a relief pitcher who coughs up a home run.
  — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• Young has taken a laudable stance that also sucks for many of his fans.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• All these seem laudable goals, but not all church members are happy about the U.N. ties.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
• No child should consider the mere act of waking to be laudable.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• The set marks a new low for them on that tally as well, but the fact that it’s finally reached the tally is laudable.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• While making health care more affordable is a laudable goal, it can’t be done on the back of Bayh-Dole.
  — Joseph P. Allen, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• Not that the impulse to look outward rather than inward isn’t laudable.
  — Meghan Daum, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• But that point-of-view only makes Hermanus' mission all the more laudable.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• But that point-of-view only makes Hermanus’ mission all the more laudable.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
• Granted, there are those who want to drop weight and bolster strength for health reasons, which is a laudable goal.
  — Faith Salie, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• That sort of out-of-the-box thinking is laudable in today’s society.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 10 May 2017
• Uthaug’s mission is a laudable one: to provide all the fun of a video game while sparing us the risk of chronic thumb fatigue.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2018
• The initiative, however laudable, is just the tip of the iceberg.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• And that's some laudable restraint with a pooch as precious as Eebbers.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• The direction by Ben Phillips is laudable for being straight ahead and focused on telling the stories of each act.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram.com, 16 May 2017
• And if that means rich and poor alike are reporting large and small amounts of income as tips, that too is a laudable outcome.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• The story construction is laudable, the supporting roles and even the bit roles are superbly cast and played.
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• If nothing else, not hogging the credit that belongs to those who write the jokes and perform the sketches is laudable.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2023
• And host Rich Eisen does laudable work, leveraging the event to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for St. Jude's.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2019
• Though the effort is laudable, Ebersole said, the centers are at best a stopgap with room for just a fraction of the children who need it.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• If Harris wins, his selfless act will be a laudable part of the president’s legacy.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024