How to Use admirable in a Sentence
admirable
adjective- Loyalty was her most admirable quality.
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At the time, that way of thinking still seemed admirable.
—Star Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
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The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
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The amount of growth the character has shown over the last six episodes has been admirable.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
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On a smaller scale, even the admirable Torey Krug has moved on.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021
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The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
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That Burns was in that role and holding his own at his age is admirable.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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That was admirable and an amazing trait in a person to see.
—Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2018
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The beauty of mourning, with the advantage of hindsight, is to be able to take the admirable and leave the rest.
—Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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The Patriots did an admirable job corralling Allen much of the day.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
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That, to me, is the most admirable and applicable thing of all.
—Christine Werthman, Billboard, 26 June 2024
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The dark and mordant joke is, of course, that Trump finds those hateful traits admirable.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
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On some level, his refusal to change over the years has been admirable.
—Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 8 July 2019
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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
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Those workers’ care and respect for the Olympians and those of us who will be around them for the next three weeks is admirable.
—Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2022
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What was most admirable about these new pieces was the relaxed feel of each garment.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Sep. 2023
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That’s admirable ambition, and a lot of it worked very well.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
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Yes, beating the market six years in a row seems like an admirable feat.
—Meir Statman, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
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Seavey said such openness from Mapes is fresh and admirable.
—Matt Nevala, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Feb. 2020
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Israel was braver, tougher, and so much more admirable.
—Michael Shapiro, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2019
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Our take: The amount of training this requires is admirable.
—Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
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Many of the stylist’s pulls worn by Ross come across as organic which is admirable.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 25 July 2025
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This is both an admirable sentiment and an easy one for Lear to have had.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
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Long ago were the days when only a negative STD test was the mark of an admirable date.
—Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
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The intent to improve is admirable—who doesn't want to be better, faster, and smarter?
—Stephen Miles, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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Your high standards are admirable, and those freshmen are lucky to have you.
—cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021
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Those are admirable goals, even if they can’t always be achieved.
—Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
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On the other side of the football, the defense did an admirable job on Jackson and the Ravens’ offense.
—Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2020
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That will be the case if America retreats from its admirable legacy of lunar exploration.
—Leonard David, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
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Still, this is a cut above genre average, with admirable production values and a modest storytelling scale.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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