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
Nature has conveniently left narrow shelves, crevices, and less precipitous slopes here and there, which need only the application of the pick and shovel to be made passable even for pack animals.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
We were an hour and three quarters in ascending from the bridge to the top; on this side the road might easily be made passable for horses.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
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
But he thought that the roads could everywhere be made passable for even beasts of burden by means of an adequate number of well-equipped �claireurs, or advance-guard.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Hertzka, Theodor
