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
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 swamps and marshes were made passable by laying down logs, of nearly equal size, close together in the worst places.
From Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Haight, Canniff
The number of roads required to connect the various fields and subdivisions with the village, were laid out and made passable by building the necessary bridges.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
The swamps were made passable by bundles of brushwood thrown into them, the streams were bridged and huts erected for the reception of the white troops.
From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
