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

Pant-legs cut off well above the baggy knees made passable shorts; the sweater bulged a trifle at the shoulders, it fit adequately elsewhere—and something more than adequately.

From Master of the Moondog by Mullen, Stanley

The following day the snow-ploughs and the rollers were busy, and the centre of the highway was made passable for some miles further north.

From The Land of the Long Night by Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)

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)

But the track was everywhere passable, or capable of easily being made passable for mules.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston