passable

Example Sentences

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Two sections, M’Clure Strait and Viscount Melville Sound, are only passable for two to five weeks, about a third of the season length 20 years ago, according to the researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal

She has a heavy hand for pastry, but she bakes a passable corn bread.

From Literature

Anya had never taken the trail farther than a few yards off the road, so she hoped it was passable farther north.

From Literature

A wagon was rare in the summer, when the roads were easily passable, but it was autumn now, and snow would be coming anytime; travel so close to snowfall was nonexistent.

From Literature

"I'm going to see before the elections who is a little more passable to receive my vote."

From Reuters