How to Use believable in a Sentence

believable

adjective

• The goal was not to go for 1970s on the nose, but to date things a few years prior to make the world feel believable.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• To build a believable bronze, dust the highest points of your face: the top of the cheekbones, (lightly) across the forehead, and down the bridge of the nose.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 24 Feb. 2023
• So, my whole thing was to make the story very believable.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• But the Spurs are 3-1 with a -0.9 net rating right now, which isn’t believable at all.
  — Charles Curtis, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• That the O’Neils desire vengeance is believable enough.
  — Tod Goldberg, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
• So the notion people are drifting in and out of time in that city seems very believable.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 26 Feb. 2023
• Which may make her version of events just that much more believable.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Showing through images and videos makes the words far more believable to the viewer.
  — Yec, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Dafoe had his costar slap him in real life around 20 times to help make the action look more believable!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• Kya’s crushes and heartbreaks are some of the only parts of Where the Crawdads Sing that are close to believable.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• In some cases, the caller might even know your name and address, which makes the call sound more believable.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
• What comes across as silly—and what is just outlandish enough to be believable?
  — Margret Grebowicz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Which makes his big, evil reveal that much more compelling, and that much more believable.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• So the burden of making a live-action Stitch — who must somehow be believable as both blue dog and alien — lies with him.
  — Vulture, 1 Apr. 2023
• That one’s believable, given that some strains of Buddhism posit that there's a part of us that is distinct from our bodies.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2023
• Hot Dog Night at the ballpark will offer fans $2 hot dogs like every other night, but the team promises a bun-believable time.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 31 July 2022
• The two have great chemistry, which drives the story and makes even the most unbelievable scenes weirdly believable.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• Someone who learns lines, learns how to play someone else’s part and be believable, be credible, wins awards?
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Mansell is caught in some kind of no man’s land that is neither believable nor terrifying.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 17 July 2023
• So the choreography in these scenes is very believable.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• In her civilian guise, Carter did an admirable if not totally believable job blending in with the crowd.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• One brother is kind, one is not, and neither lands as a believable character.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• The characters are believable and fun, including the men.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• The calls are believable to some because the caller, sometimes a telephone robot, knows the make and model of your vehicle.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Some was devised by Fabian to help make even the imaginary moments on screen feel more believable.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 15 July 2022
• The horror genre often is built on fantasy, yet St. James makes her plots believable.
  — Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• And, like Keaton, Dever makes every one of them grounded and believable.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• According the outlet, there's a scene in the film where Stone slaps Dafoe in the face off-camera — but Dafoe had his costar slap him in real life around 20 times to help make the action look more believable.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• That’s a believable (and funny) interaction, but in that moment, the play is doing the same thing Patty is.
  — Vulture, 31 July 2023
• None of the characters are believable because the actors aren’t allowed to believe in them themselves.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024