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Examples of sizable in a Sentence
a sizable portion of the population
He won by a sizable margin.
Recent Examples of sizable from the Web
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According to the report, the families chose the cash option, lowering their prize to a still sizable $284 million, which was then split eight ways.
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April 11, 2017 Kuchta wants the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to put a sliver of its sizable budget into the roseau problem.
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Unemployment rates around the country continued to drop in April, and the Kansas City metropolitan area registered a sizable decline in the number of unemployed job hunters.
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The shark reportedly weighed 440 pounds and was almost 9 feet in length, a sizable neighbor for a boat measuring only 4 and a half feet across and 14 feet long.
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Egypt’s response to the latest deadly attack against its sizable Christian minority — a wave of airstrikes against Islamic militant installations in eastern Libya — may be a sign of both despair and resolve.
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Receiving the baton from Jake McEneaney for the third leg of the race at O'Brien Field, Mollway created a sizable cushion for anchor Isaiah Robinson, the Southern California recruit.
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The seismic tremors from Libya’s revolution in 2011 reverberated across geographical and generational borders, in Manchester’s sizable Libyan population — the largest outside Libya — and in the Abedi family as well.
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Secondly, Logic has a core fanbase that can enable a big debut, but cannot usually sustain sizable sales past a set’s first week.
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First Known Use of sizable
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SIZABLE Defined for English Language Learners
SIZABLE Defined for Kids
sizable
playsizeable
\ˈsī-zə-bəl\Definition of sizable for Students
: fairly large a sizable contribution
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