Passable

//ˈpæsəbəl//

"Passable" in a Sentence (10 examples)

It's passable. Nothing out of the ordinary.

The constituents of a word salad are neither random nor unrelated, but connected by a net so torn that only detours remain passable.

He speaks passable French, but he is clearly more fluent in German.

Although I speak passable French, don't expect me to be able to give a speech at Jérôme's wedding.

Tom speaks passable Hindi and Russian.

Tom speaks French as fluently as a native speaker, and he also speaks passable English.

Geologists have complicated matters by suggesting that the Bering Strait wasn’t passable until 10 or 12,000 years ago.

The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

AIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410.

The idea of something, or someone, being unusual and sexual is intoxicating. I concluded that if I ever met a very passable transsexual and we were attracted to one another, I'd go bisexual and pursue the relationship.

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