How to Use passable in a Sentence

passable

adjective

• He did a passable job with the assignment.
• The river is passable during the summer months.
• The main road is passable but most others are still covered with snow.
• She plays passable golf but prefers tennis.
• Desert roads that tend to be greasy wet have to be passable.
  — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• All are expected to be passable by the end of the week.
  — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• But the planes are new, the legroom is passable (about the same as Alaska Air's coach seat pitch).
  — Scott McMurren, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
• The trail to the world-class lookout atop the Sierra Buttes is open and passable this week.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
• Christopher still has the size and skill to be a passable backup guard in the NBA.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
• Their still-shaky bullpen went from flammable to passable.
  — Jesse Dougherty, The Denver Post, 24 July 2019
• The route is only passable in winter, when the rivers and lakes have frozen over.
  — Victoria Petersen, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, Yeager said, the state will keep the road passable for those who live or work there.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• The 10-episode season is passable, even pleasing, for the most part.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• Streets still have some snow on them so motorists need to drive with care, but the streets are passable.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• When the team played rock music, Cog managed to beat out a passable rhythm on a snare drum.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
• The sound itself is passable, as is the climate and nav system.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• And even this was at best passable with a good price point for a Sonoma County white.
  — Tan Vinh and Owen Bargreen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• When the snow is coming down, the goal is to make roads passable, not perfect, Bruning said.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2020
• Even five days after the storm first hit land, portions of the road are barely passable.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The new rules meant the latest Alphafly shoes -- which are believed to have a sole that is 39.5mm thick -- are passable.
  — Matias Grez and George Ramsay, CNN, 1 Oct. 2020
• The people who are not passable, the people who are clockable.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2019
• That was the case with one house Woodbridge and Dunlap found on their pilot stroll that looked passable from the front.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 10 June 2019
• So when the big snow (all 2 inches of it) arrives, there’s nothing to keep the roads and sidewalks passable.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• The last 12 miles are a narrow, winding gravel road passable to sedans.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• That road has been made more passable to young QBs for a variety of reasons.
  — Barry Wilner, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2022
• The broken causeway to Sanibel Island might not be passable until the end of the month.
  — Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
• This is when everything is open and roads are passable.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
• The low frame rate gives footage a choppy feel, there’s no HDR, and night vision is only passable.
  — Simon Hill adrienne So, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• There, a white board is updated daily to share which highways and major roads are passable, that school is canceled all week, and the phone number to report missing persons.
  — Jessica Wakeman, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
• Forest Road 117 is unpaved, but generally passable by sedans.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024