Use "passable" in a sentence

1. They both cleaned up at a public bath, had a passable meal, took as much fuel as there was, and he charged off into Dawnsleep while she huddled in both quilts in the chilly cabin

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2. Now, however, the hive had started sending smaller parties, six or seven hundred at a time, over the mountains, seeking out any passable route

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3. plateaux, and the roads were passable all the way through

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4. passable by now, and he was impatient to see his wife

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5. Perhaps passable by the One Elf, to Alec, the roadblocks were as impossible to scale as the walls of Lock Core

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6. from Phrygia, but had been captured five years ago and spoke passable Ionian

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7. He could see debris lying about ahead of him, but it was passable

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8. Harold’s mood shifted, he tried to smile, and did a passable job of it

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9. Hunger is a good sauce, and the creatures are collected, and a handful or two thrown into a fry-pan with a little fat, and though I did not try this tempting dish, they are said to be just passable, will keep a long time, and can be easily prepared

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10. “Will the real Tony Fuck-head, please stand up,” sang his dad in a passable imitation of Eminem

11. Anyhow, it wasn’t easy, but eventually I found a girl who can do a passable job if I keep a close eye on her

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12. And for its size, it has quite a nightlife with live music, dancing and several passable restaurants

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13. The deeply rutted and switchback entrance from the highway had always been passable only by four-wheel drive vehicles and too narrow when meeting head-on: she had once had the harrowing experience of backing through a hairpin at the edge of a cliff to allow the passage of an electric company truck

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14. They found that food could be purchased from the farms they passed along the way to supplement what they carried with them, and Elizabeth managed to turn simple fare into passable meals in spite of the difficulty of cooking over an open fire

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15. The roads must be passable

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16. Elizabeth asked if Colling would show her how to steer, and he found she did a passable job of holding the boat on a steady course

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17. The trees were not dense or tangled, but fairly open and passable

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18. I came upon a small creek that seemed to make a passable cut through the canyon wall so I crossed it and waited until morning to make my descent

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19. five mile distance to the only passable incline

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20. was more than passable for a woman of her size and shape

21. 21 So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents he departed in all haste to Antiochia weening in his pride to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind

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22. It’s steep, but it looks passable on foot at least! Moshe!” he added, smoothly changing the direction of his remarks

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23. But, although the path was more passable for her, it was so too for the wounded wolf

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24. It's steep, but it looks passable on foot at least! Moshe!” he added, smoothly

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25. I bet that I could make a passable dinner in

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26. It was however made passable for cars by planks fastened to the trestles

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27. levels but the exiting shot was quite passable, although my face was

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28. would grind away for hours in producing anything he would consider as passable

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29. Twenty feet up, the tube was kinked and barely passable

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30. "The hull's passable, but the navigation lights were shot to pieces

31. The end result looks passable; Grailem does not want to reshape his own face yet to fit the mask as he gets the feeling that to stay with the microchips when they are unloaded, he may have to take on the personality of a robot worker again

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32. Both spoke broken but passable English, the cook being a bit better at it than the maid

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33. She then went to check the meteorological information board and frowned again: even though partially cloudy skies were announced for the Philippines and Formosa, the conditions predicted for today were passable, thus making a Japanese air attack possible as soon as the Sun was up

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34. Thirty minutes later the redhead completed a passable manicure, just as alarm sirens started to whine

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35. passable English - by the name of ‘Father Joseph’

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36. Give me an hour with the stamp dealer’s photo on the computer and I will be able to give you a passable copy of the stamped envelope

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37. ‘Say hi to me Mum,’ in a passable cockney as she tossed the phone over

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38. Both Dean and Farah agreed with that and made themselves as comfortable as they could, with Farah using one of the big canvas tarps stored in the compartment, folding it a few times to make it a sort of passable mattress for herself

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39. I tried to stay on roads that looked passable, but by the time I reached the foot of Stony Road I was stuck deep in the mud

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40. Most of the 210, 10, and 5 highways were not passable in any direction

41. I could once sing one or two of the old standards, a passable

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42. aged and not passable; although close to town, there was no ferry

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43. passable, the slow pace was swallowing her precious time

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44. He’d tried music but his fingers were clumsy and though his voice was passable, he could only sing plain melodies

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45. It looked passable, I supposed, although of course I couldn’t see the back

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46. David and Rebecca drove the van up to the ford to see if it was passable

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47. Sixty minutes later they’d knocked together a passable rendition of Up Where We Belong, and the groom and bride were swaying across the dance floor in front of them

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48. My brain still believed I wasn’t very passable

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49. It can also be reached by road, through a white gate down a lane that grows more and more willowy as it gets nearer the river and the house, but is quite passable for carts and even for cars, except when there are floods

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50. He used to go there practically every afternoon if the weather was passable and it was not raining

51. But we had survived in passable shape

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52. The past is forgotten and buried as fast as passable

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53. “We’re early,” Sarah Proud stopped the car in a car park across the road from the queue of cars, “the causeway will only be passable in about an hour’s time

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54. The only reason these words are made to be figuratively language is that if these words are taken with their literal meaning they make the doctrine of an immortal soul and eternal life in Hell not passable

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55. The humvee drove her to the gate, where she jumped into her car and did as passable an imitation of leaving rubber on the asphalt as her Honda could manage

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56. It would not be passable to say that both the good and the evil will be resurrected on the same day and in the same hour, not a thousand years apart

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57. "The food is the same as in other prisons,—that is, very bad; the lodging is very unhealthful, but, on the whole, passable for a dungeon; but it is not that which I wish to speak of, but a secret I have to reveal of the greatest importance

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58. ” She did a passable job of selling this

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59. Oddly enough his table manners were almost passable

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60. It was an ambitious subject for an amateur - an oval basin with an island of sculptured rocks at its centre; on the rocks grew, in stone, formal tropical vegetation, and wild English fem in its natural fronds; through them ran a dozen streams that counterfeited springs, and round them sported fantastic tropical animals, camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all vomiting water; on the rocks, to the height of the pediment, stood an Egyptian obelisk of red sandstone - but, by some odd chance, for the thing was far beyond me, I brought it off and, by judicious omissions and some stylish tricks, produced a very passable echo of Piranesi

61. Will you have wine or beer? There's a barrel inside there -- very passable

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62. A brunette called me “definitely passable,” then turned to resume her conversation, which consisted of loudly insisting that she drove better drunk

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63. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a cure, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of an old sheep, and he was easily frightened

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64. In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable apple-tree

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65. She spoke a little too fast, jumbling her passable English

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66. His manners now, though not polished, were more than passable: they were grateful, animated, manly; his expressions were those of an attached father, and a sensible man; his loud tones did very well in the open air, and there was not a single oath to be heard

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67. Do you think I could ever develop into a passable minister's wife, Anne? And WOULD they expect me to lead in prayer? P G

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68. " Your manners were rather neglected where j^ou were brought up, my dear fellow, though they are pretty passable

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69. Next day the food was passable, but this improvement did not last long; on the days ensuing the disturbance, the Major went about the prison much more than usual, and always found something irregular to be stopped and punished

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70. Have sent away four chapters, I think not passable by the censor, but at least I think I have settled on one point, and that I won’t make any more great important changes

71. ” Yet through all this chopping and changing and pretence (as I now conceive) there may have run in me a certain vein of talent, since music sometimes affected me even to tears, and things which particularly pleased me I could strum on the piano afterwards (in a certain fashion) without the score; so that, had any one taught me at that period to look upon music as an end, a grace, in itself, and not merely as a means for pleasing womenfolk with the velocity and pseudo-sentiment of one’s playing, I might possibly have become a passable musician

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72. However, it was decided that a cage of white leghorn fowls, colored with aniline dyes, could be shown even in these barren times as “Royal South American Witherlicks”; that Joachim could be converted into a passable zebra, and “Plug” Avery still had in his van the celluloid lemon peel as well as the glass cube that created the illusion of ice in the pink lemonade

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73. A valley encircles the ruptured spot on the east, south, and west, only five feet lower, yet so marshy and soft, as to render draining necessary to make it passable; and immediately back of this valley, on the south, rises a hill 100 feet high, at whose foot are several springs

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