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

The General Court ordered the bridge and way to be made, "passable for loaden horse," and allowed twenty pounds to Sudbury, "so it be donne w'thin a twelve monthe."

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various

After the earth has been deposited it must be worked over to secure the correct cross section and be made passable for vehicles.

From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)

The fibres of grass were torn and drawn into fine threads, and these made passable oakum, which was thrust into the seams between the layers of bark until they were thoroughly stopped.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

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)