passable

Example Sentences

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But for years, I stayed in the realm of passable.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

For investors, the critical question is when the Strait of Hormuz will be passable with lowered risk given the growing economic toll around the world.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Nuzzi-Lizza is just consequential enough to be passable in polite discussion without really mattering all that much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

Humor has also changed, and jokes that may have been passable decades ago are no longer appropriate, experts said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

He supposed, in the end, that the morning was about as passable a morning as anyone could pass when he was forging through a Latin exercise.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt