How to Use practicable in a Sentence

practicable

adjective

• The idea is interesting but not practicable, I'm afraid.
• Cyclists on the road should remain as far to the right as is practicable.
  — John Pana, cleveland, 26 July 2021
• The first few nuclear aircraft may not use the delta, but Ohlinger expects that in the long run it will be found to be the most practicable.
  — Thomas E. Stimson, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2021
• Get in front of your professor or boss as soon as practicable to make your ask.
  — Mark Antonio Wright, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• One of the authors of that paper says that Wordsworth’s idea, even if only practicable over small scales, is worth a shot.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 July 2019
• Airports try to be good neighbors and reduce the noise as much as practicable.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
• The fee will be imposed at Joshua Tree National Park as soon as practicable.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Snow which falls or accumulates between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. shall be removed as soon as practicable, but no later than 10 p.m. of the same day.
  — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• These can be the design styles that are deemed downright ugly or silly, the ones that are overplayed, and others that aren’t practicable or easy to pull off.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• The math that explains why a donut is really the same shape as coffee mug but not a waste bin could be the key to making quantum computers practicable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2023
• So there is no practicable alternative to the use of force to degrade and deter the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Regime.
  — CNN, 14 Apr. 2018
• If the idea of listening to music seems a lot more practicable to you than meditating, these findings are great news.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
• Also, riders are to travel in the bike lane or as near to the right side of the travel lane as practicable while obeying all traffic rules, signals, signs and control devices.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
• The state acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 24 May 2018
• The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.
  — Una Mullally, The Cut, 24 May 2018
• Performers will drive or fly from city to city in its new iteration, and stay in hotels, a tremendous savings made practicable by the fact that there’s no longer a need to check-in, say, a big cat.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• Both state and federal managers have worked for years to harmonize their disparate rules as much as practicable.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Trump anticipates that Smith would then be poised to urge that all pretrial matters be wrapped up quickly and that the trial should proceed as close to March 4 as practicable.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024
• All such matters are treated in confidence to the fullest extent practicable.
  — Boris Kachka, The Cut, 5 Feb. 2018
• The proclamation encourages visitors in West Maui to depart the island as soon as safe and practicable.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Trappers need to ply their trade responsibly; check their traps often, and use the most humane methods practicable.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Not for the campers, but employees, to the greatest extent practicable, must wear face coverings when interacting with campers and guests.
  — al, 2 July 2020
• Theresa May in her statement tonight saying that there is no practicable alternative to the use of force to degrade and deter the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
  — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• Forming a new friendship may be more practicable than pursuing a romantic hookup this week.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2017
• It was reinstated as soon as was practicable, according to palace aides.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• One involves tearing out the dead wood in the NCAA’s dated amateurism model, and re-imagining it as something more practicable in modern college sports.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2018
• This was an obvious starting point and yet has not proved useful or practicable information for many people and most countries.
  — WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
• The law says that drivers blocking faster traffic to the point of causing traffic hazard on freeways and state highways with more than one lane in each direction must move to the right lane when practicable or risk being pulled over and ticketed.
  — Dana Ferguson, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
• Each state board of education district shall be as compact as practicable.
  — cleveland, 14 July 2022
• In the year after Cumulina’s birth, Wakayama and Yanagimachi made 84 more cloned mice, putting to rest lingering skepticism over whether cloning was practicable.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024