How to Use allowable in a Sentence

allowable

adjective

• Fuentes used the crop more than six times, the allowable limit.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• The allowable speed on that section of track is 79 miles per hour.
  — The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
• Rispoli used the riding crop more than six times, the allowable limit.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• First, there’s cost data, which includes charge costs and allowable costs.
  — Robert Gelb, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
• Miller said there are allowable quantities for certain things that can be put in those rooms.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• Miller said there are allowable quantities for certain things that can be put in those rooms.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• His lawyers argued last week that those acts were allowable under the speech and debate clause.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2019
• The changes would, in some cases, halve the allowable density in parts of the city.
  — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 11 June 2025
• Once, the asbestos level was more than five times the allowable limit.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2022
• Sports facilities in the past have been deemed an allowable use.
  — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2025
• The change would mean an increase in the allowable amount of mold and yeast for one lab and a decrease for the other.
  — Ginny Monk, courant.com, 2 Apr. 2022
• Those are the allowable strings in this silly example, okay?
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
• This was allowable because one of the theater’s board members is a friend of one of the writers of the show.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• Rubio’s salary will approach the maximum allowable budget charge in each year of the new deal.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2021
• The allowable amount is set by the PSC but is not guaranteed.
  — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
• Adding many more drivers to the Uber platform would push that time below allowable limits.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
• The letter from city planning staff confirmed that a Target would be an allowable use.
  — Rose Evans september 22, Idaho Statesman, 22 Sep. 2025
• But some scientists are hesitant to scale up to even those allowable levels.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
• The league gave them six primetime games, the maximum allowable, whereas the Rams got two.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Both won on their second try (which is allowable under ACM rules).
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2021
• Huddlestun said the business that goes there could be anything allowable on M-1.
  — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
• Image To make the most of the allowable space, the house is designed as efficiently as a ship.
  — Tim McKeough, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• The only allowable exception here would be — if that’s the way said leader’s spouse addresses him or her around the house.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• When the bill got back over to the House, Howell had to make a ruling on whether the changes were germane, or allowable.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• That was what showed a near-complete stock collapse and a nearly 90% cut in the total allowable catch for last season.
  — Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Two arm tugging a dude down in the box is allowable according to @PROreferees.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2021
• There's also a PSI label on your tires — that's the max allowable air pressure; don't use this.
  — Krista Soriano, Cosmopolitan, 25 Feb. 2016
• Prescriptions filled after someone has paid the maximum allowable amount will cost them nothing at all.
  — Adam Pate, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
• This is the maximum allowable limit.
  — NPR, 30 Nov. 2025
• Each gave the maximum allowable amount of $2,900 per election.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 12 June 2022