How to Use workable in a Sentence

workable

adjective

• I think the plan is quite workable.
• Chill the cookie dough until it is more workable.
• The coach must have a workable plan to get the most out of Murray’s talents.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2023
• With the pressure of miles of ocean above them, these cell walls are held in a workable shape.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
• Testers said the belt clip was somewhat stiff but still workable.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2023
• Add oats and mix by hand until dough is soft and workable.
  — The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The good news is the World Bank need not look too far afield to find a playbook for a workable structure.
  — Vineeta Gupta, STAT, 29 Nov. 2022
• Where soil is dry enough and workable, plant garden peas and sweet peas.
  — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
• Users would see a workable buy button right on top of the playing video.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2023
• As a workable headset for phone calls and video meetings, the Back Bay ClearCall 70 is hard to beat.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• There are a lot of moving parts there, but none of them add up to a workable deal that sends Lillard to the Suns.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 9 June 2023
• Up to 200 people are exploring the hill to try to find a workable shaft.
  — Chris Irvine, Fox News, 7 July 2018
• At this point, the butter should be firm but workable, 68 to 70 degrees.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2020
• There is no guarantee that this will be a workable plan over the long haul.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024
• The airline said the new rules extended the time planes would need to sit on the ground in Shanghai, and weren’t workable.
  — David Koenig, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
• The devices Biden saw weren’t close to being workable; they had been staged for the visit.
  — Roger Lowenstein, New York Times, 21 May 2018
• The friend came back from a detention camp with one workable arm.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The Cavs didn’t feel platooning the two was a workable on-court setup.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2021
• But any rod from 8 to 9 feet casting a line between 4 and 8-weight is workable.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 July 2021
• Besides, who gets to decide what is workable and what is not?
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
• A lot of the equipment that was out there really wasn’t workable.
  — Andy Meek, Billboard, 2 May 2023
• Perhaps by then, the court opined, a workable alternative to the use of race would have been found.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2019
• The lawmaker doesn’t want to add his bans on workable guns and live ammo to the penal code.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The issue is that many of these strategies are just not workable for many people.
  — Kathy Caprino, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• There are a few quick and easy ways to get that hard-as-a-rock brown sugar to soft, workable and delicious.
  — Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2022
• The start-up struggled to build a first machine that proved its concept workable.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2022
• Trying to strike a balance between groups — one that’s both fair and workable — is a tricky task.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2020
• In this era, when 10 or fewer has become the norm, might a real-time thriller be more workable?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Qualifying candidates must have at least one parent or grandparent with Irish citizenship, though in some cases a great-grandparent born on the Emerald Isle could be workable.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2024
• According to the website, submissions this year were due June 17, and eligibility required being an identifying woman or non-binary director or writer with a workable project seeking guidance and funding.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024