admirable
Example Sentences
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Bath's win was all the more admirable as they only took the lead for the first time in the 54th minute, having fallen 14-0 behind early on.
From Barron's
We rightly fear nuclear proliferation, and yet “amazing grace and good fortune,” and admirable postwar statecraft, “actually bent the arc of history.”
To the script’s credit, their bond is strained but never snapped — their friendship has an admirable elasticity.
From Los Angeles Times
“In North America, we’ve always replaced our reserves and resources, which is obviously important and admirable,” Hill said.
Her 20-year devotion to professional footy, she writes, helped her “glimpse what is grand and noble, and admirable and graceful about men.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
