passable
Example Sentences
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The route is only passable in the summer and fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
There are some communities, particularly in the mountains, where roads aren’t passable in the winter even in a four-wheel-drive pickup, Norton said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett and Lee Brice all turned in adequate country sets that would be perfectly passable as live entertainment at your local barbecue joint.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2026
"Most roads are now passable so supplies are now coming in from the city. But immediate supplies like water and food, especially for the children are not yet available," he tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
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