How to Use usable in a Sentence

usable

adjective

• Is any of this junk usable?
• Keep in Mind The gabled roof limits the amount of usable space.
  — Laura Kristine Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
• Some of that salt, because of the way it is stored, may not be usable.
  — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• While no one was hurt, the tent was no longer usable, and his bike was broken.
  — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• The point is to get rid of waste, to transform it into a usable outcome.
  — Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
• For years, the team was unable to extract usable DNA from the samples.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
• The mini-loft here was added to add some extra usable space.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 28 June 2023
• The wide frame and belt provide 55% more usable walking space.
  — Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• And as long as Choke Point is a doable, usable tool, there will be politicians that use it both ways.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Like some competitors, the third-row seats are usable and that’s it.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes 80 percent of the garments in a bale are usable.
  — Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
• Metabolism is an impulse that makes sense at the end of the usable world.
  — Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Though the woody parts of the stems are too tough and fibrous to chop (only the leaves are usable), the soft, flexible tips can be chopped up with the leaves.
  — Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• The hope is that this extreme recoil is a bug and that the dev team will fix it up within the next few hours to make these weapons usable.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• That’s the same amount as the Taycan Cross Turismo and is only usable for the smallest items.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2024
• This may mean stocks of any more recent usable tanks are running low.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• As well as usable by athletes for recruiting and so forth and so on.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• In December, 45% of sales were usable cannabis, or flower, while vapes made up 35% of sales.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• Pitchfork was old, with roots that date back to what feels like the beginning of the usable internet.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2024
• Because the stand lifts your devices up to eye level, you're left with more usable desk space for your WFH set up.
  — Ellen McAlpine, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• One aspect of this is how easy the Fairphone 5 is to repair, with the aim of keeping it usable for longer and, hence, out of landfill.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
• Architects at FitzGerald have to consider the floor-plate size of the building—or the amount of usable square footage.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Yield is a key statistic that refers to how many usable chips emerge from production.
  — John Liu, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• The idea’s ambitious and still a way off from yielding usable treatments.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
• For instance, a dining table should be usable as a workspace.
  — Cristina Moody, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• Odds are, your unused gift cards are still usable, Rossman said.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• The touchpad didn't get overly hot, and the keyboard was very warm but still usable in these scenarios.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2022
• This is a reversible board, with both sides usable for cutting or serving.
  — Rachael Hogg, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2024
• On the one hand, buyers want a home with upscale, usable appliances.
  — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 8 Aug. 2023
• But there are a lot of people too, who chimed in and said that's a lot of money, and it would be better spent on things in the park that would be more usable by the public.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024