made passable
Example Sentences
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While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale.
From Time Magazine Archive
With some degree of preparation the worst places might be made passable for lightly loaded elephants, and this would be facilitated by the soft nature of most of the rocks.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
The first plan is, To attack the French retrenchment generally; the ditch which is before it, and the morass which lies on our left wing, to be made passable with these fascines.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas
Here an irregular stone staircase has been made, passable by one person at a time.
From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by McAllan, Alexander
The trenches are made passable by being floored with a wooden pathway which runs on piles—underneath which is the gutter of water and mud which is the real floor of the trench.
From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)
