How to Use admirable in a Sentence

admirable

adjective

• Loyalty was her most admirable quality.
• The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
• The Patriots did an admirable job corralling Allen much of the day.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• Having the willingness to do it is an admirable trait, but that would lead him to a sort of death.
  — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
• What was most admirable about these new pieces was the relaxed feel of each garment.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Sep. 2023
• Just getting up and getting on planes at that age is admirable.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• The actions of the large banks are admirable, but clearly, this is only a short-run answer.
  — Maureen O’Hara, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• All of these flourishes are done with an admirable straight face.
  — Brian Feldman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Is following the heart there an admirable act, or a selfish one?
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• That’s really the attribute of Jessie that’s most admirable.
  — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• The character-first focus is admirable, and there are moments of sweetness with the main duo.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Vucevic is a free agent after this season, and the team’s attempt to build a contender on the fly, while admirable, hasn’t worked out.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
• The gas system worked well and did an admirable job of reducing recoil.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• That showing up each year hellbent on putting the Blazers in the best position to win is admirable.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023
• One of the authors' core goals was to help raise the status of Japanese collectible cars, an admirable mission.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 26 Nov. 2022
• Pinkett Smith, cradling a cup of hot tea in both hands, possesses the kind of calm that is both admirable and enraging.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• There are no trophies for admirable restraint, but the Yankees knew this already.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
• Kaminsky was a star at the University of Wisconsin and a reunion with the state would be admirable.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Axios, the news media outlet, does an admirable job with this approach.
  — April Rudin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The long road she’s been on has been marked by low moments–her candidness when addressing this was admirable.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
• Freaks and Geeks only lasted for one season, but still managed to fit in an admirable Halloween episode.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• This is a genre movie with admirable artistic ambitions, which are often enough met.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• The last-ditch effort was admirable but didn’t work, and Captain Kosher was promptly voted out in a unanimous vote.
  — Sharon Tharp, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Oregon State’s performance against USC, while admirable, was a loss.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
• But his son, Larry, a pain in the neck played with admirable if exhausting compassion by Burstein, won’t let the poor guy enjoy his golden years in the sun.
  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
• Although the surface is wet, the Vector circulates at an admirable 0.91 g, with a touch of tail-happiness at the limit.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 June 2023
• The work is well done and does an admirable job of combining different data, Vidale says.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2023
• Christie’s track record with respect to Trump is a long way from consistent and admirable, and Fox will have no trouble finding clips of Christie sucking up to Trump.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 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
• That turnover proved to be as important as any play in the game and reminded us what an admirable job Stone, who was honored with a game ball, did filling in for Williams last year.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024