How to Use amenable in a Sentence

amenable

adjective
  • That may have made the regime more amenable to his visit.
    New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Tear it down to, to build something that’s more amenable.
    Leila Atassi, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The trouble is that Mr Lukashenko might not be amenable.
    Erasmus, The Economist, 21 July 2019
  • So the Mods were amenable when the group approached them for a full partnership.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Set clear, amenable rules of engagement for video calls.
    Benoni Tagoe, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Also, look for their input into how to make the workspace more amenable.
    John Baldoni, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • Aviation lives mainly in the world of physics and as such is more amenable to checklists.
    WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Filling these orders requires boats amenable to the trip.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Younger generations are more than amenable to the idea of remote work.
    Stephane Kasriel, Fortune, 22 June 2019
  • And no time of year is more amenable to helping hunters and trappers do just that than the coming couple of months.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • But now, a few things have changed that might make Google more amenable to this kind of feature.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The protests have not always been met with amenable responses from school leaders.
    NBC News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Ian gets really lucky and Brighid seems more than amenable to having a drink with the young man.
    Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
  • But that doesn't mean that some aspects of the changes dogs have undergone aren't amenable to study.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2019
  • But not all cities are equally amenable to people working.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Even better, crack all of the windows a quarter of the way, if your passengers are amenable.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Those court fights, and the probe as a whole, received a boost from an amenable executive branch.
    Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Palm Beach County voters have been amenable to school taxes in the past.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
  • Moussallem seemed amenable, but then changed his tune, Shaw said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
  • He is expected to be more amenable to the president’s approach.
    Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Recently, though, my kitchen life has been much more amenable to gadgets.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Some recipes are amenable to grain-free diets or can assist pups with losing a little weight.
    Maddie Topliff, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2023
  • If your ex is amenable to finding a middle ground, be prepared to still feel surveilled and perturbed.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Pompeo is likely to be more amenable to Trump’s way of doing business.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Pompeo is likely to be more amenable to Trump's way of doing business.
    Karen Deyoung, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Those doted-upon children seem to have turned into amenable teenagers.
    The Economist, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Yet many forms of cancer are now amenable to cures or long periods of remission and control.
    Andrew C. Von Eschenbach Reprints, STAT, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Beyond that, false claims about the virus are often cut-and-dry, and therefore more amenable to fact-checks.
    Whitney Phillips, Wired, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Being on the road isn’t always amenable to bathtime, but pups get dirty way too easily.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Zuckerberg, however, seemed much more amenable to throwing wide the gates of reform.
    Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020

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