How to Use salable in a Sentence

salable

adjective

• We'll have to repaint the house for it to be salable.
• For the rest of the assets, many of them are ultimately salable.
  — Steven Davidoff Solomon and Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
• And the less detectable the air pollution, the more desirable and salable that view is.
  — Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021
• Her work seemed more popular — and salable — outside the New York art world.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• If one of those buyers doesn’t come along, owners could spend millions just trying to keep the place in salable shape.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• There are also fanny packs, ball caps, turtlenecks, tiger tees, and all manner of salable items, which will, for the first time, be ready to buy the day after the show.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2019
• Estimates of the salable value of the city's Caravaggios and van Goghs were coming in at $2 billion or more.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2015
• The talk, naturally, is prelude to what makes action films so salable around the world: the first of many fight scenes that punctuate the three episodes out for review.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• There was no market to speak of, so little incentive to make salable objects.
  — Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Flippers buy properties that need lots of work to get them in salable condition.
  — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2021
• Anyone who would like to donate salable items -- Christmas or otherwise -- should bring those items to the store between 10 a.m.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
• The World Butcher Challenge has teams of six carving a side of beef, a side of pork, a whole lamb and five chickens into salable pieces within three hours and 15 minutes.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 11 July 2018
• Once a dairy farmer was able to keep this milk salable overnight, however, that source of nutrition disappeared.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Is this shtick, familiar from 2016, salable two years later?
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• Galleries from all over the world send their representatives here with some of their finest, or at least most salable, art, and members of the Chicago art world put on their finest clothes and go out to meet them.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
• Even before the ship's sinking, the fire on board was extensive enough that none of the vehicles were expected to be in salable condition.
  — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2022
• Record companies may talk about supporting social justice, but in the end, if an artist proves salable, that artist is going to keep getting sold.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 July 2021
• Demand for salable vaccine would create more supply, and a small tax could even be applied to generate funds for distribution to the poor.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
• And Vuori is now testing ways to prevent damaged or returned merchandise from being sent to the landfill by restoring the items to salable condition.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
• Betzig is toying with the idea of harnessing his microscope to create salable art in his retirement.
  — Jeffery Delviscio, STAT, 19 Apr. 2018
• Cook and Solomonov had hatched the idea of turning FedNuts’ trimmings into something salable, whose profits would be donated to charity.
  — Michael Klein, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
• What a museum could not do, however, is start sorting through the storage racks looking for salable merchandise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• The Kona N is an exciting and clever four-door alternative to the funky Veloster N, all effervescent energy and snorting exhaust bound up in a more salable package.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 July 2022
• On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap.
  — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
• The store accepts clean and salable clothing, glassware, kitchenware, furniture, books, knick-knacks, tools, lamps, pictures and miscellaneous items from non-smoking homes.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 7 May 2021
• World Supersport regulations require the bikes to be homologated, or salable to the public and legal for street driving.
  — Joe Michaud, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2017
• As well as making Spot into a salable robot, the company has also bought logistics startup Kinema Systems to pave the way into warehouse automation.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 17 July 2019
• There are the stories of the strictly financial, like when a piece that was once a symbol of everlasting love morphs into a strictly salable commodity that helps to pay the mortgage, a child’s college tuition or a charitable donation.
  — Jane Gordon Julien, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Wisconsin Public Radio reports that summer rains last year ruined about 20 Wisconsin farmers’ chances of producing salable hemp grain.
  — USA TODAY, 26 June 2019
• To make the building more salable, the county has invested $5.3 million in removing asbestos, and other hazardous materials and debris, to add temporary electrical wiring, and to protect against break-ins and vandalism.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 15 June 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024