How to Use acceptable in a Sentence

acceptable

adjective

• She plays an acceptable game of tennis.
• It was an acceptable performance, although not an outstanding one.
• Any space where the slides aren’t acceptable isn’t of interest to them anyway.
  — Ryan Lee Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• That means that the wealthy part of the world has to make ecological room for the poor to catch up to an acceptable standard of living.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 17 July 2022
• The goal is to confirm the theory that a 75-decibel boom will be acceptable.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 25 July 2022
• An open question is what level of mortgage rates will be acceptable or affordable for buyers on the sidelines.
  — Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
• Such phrases are acceptable in people’s quotations or job titles.
  — WSJ, 15 July 2022
• And maybe the biggest news is the lack of an acceptable owner (among other issues) standing in the way of the league’s return to Arizona.
  — Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
• Bullying is never acceptable, and these tools can empower your children to safely and successfully take a stand.
  — Jacqueline Sperling, Ph.d., Harvard Health Blog, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2022
• Human screeners are hired to play with the AI and tell the AI what is acceptable to say versus what is forbidden to say.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• This is a mid-range phone—a market segment where the cameras are usually dreadful—so Google's competent camera is acceptable.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
• Standard licenses with no gold star will no longer be acceptable identification for domestic flights starting next May.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2022
• The memo then reviews diagnosis codes that are deemed acceptable for dispensation, which include miscarriage.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 20 July 2022
• But with jury selection set to begin on Monday, the process of finding a group of 12 jurors plus two alternates who could be acceptable to both sides might be the biggest hurdle.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 18 July 2022
• The key, of course, is to give your cat a place to scratch that both of you find acceptable.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 10 Sep. 2023
• But even 3-3 would be acceptable and keep them in the hunt.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
• In that case, the scrambling of words might seem to be acceptable.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• And will the language the developer wants in the ENA be acceptable to the city?
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Will it be considered acceptable at the end of the day?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• Rice isn’t the only acceptable venue for these crispy cubes—far from it.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• In Steve’s mind, buying new tools (think a welder or a miter saw) to fix things is acceptable.
  — Karen Kreider Yoder, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• But Sitake didn’t find that to be an acceptable answer.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Gone are the days when a cold beer or a glass of wine were the only socially acceptable ways to unwind.
  — Joshua Adragna, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
• The shows were quite punky, in your face, anarchic and pushed the envelope of what was acceptable.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• And there’s the rub: when Waters stuck to rock star accoutrements that were acceptable in both the ‘80s and the present day (Guitar solos!
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 7 June 2023
• Paul was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable.
  — Megan Thomas, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• After the s--- Scroll and Key had pulled last year — not the drugs, of course; that was perfectly acceptable according to the rules of Lethe.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• They were taught that the way our hair naturally comes out of our head is not acceptable.
  — As Told To Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2023
• God forbid politicians or the press barons tell us what is acceptable.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• All of these are acceptable fabrics for a rain jacket and will certainly get the job done.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025