How to Use amenable in a Sentence
amenable
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Red clover stands taller, is less amenable to mowing, and can be short-lived.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025
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Red clover stands taller, is less amenable to mowing, and can be short-lived.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
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Moussallem seemed amenable, but then changed his tune, Shaw said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
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Will the team be amenable to uses of the field and the locker rooms?
—Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
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That also means being amenable to change.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2025
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Also, look for their input into how to make the workspace more amenable.
—John Baldoni, Forbes, 25 June 2021
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And many lenders were more amenable to working with customers who fell behind.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 22 July 2024
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Although the brand was respected, the wood was not amenable to a sweet sound.
—Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
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But now, a few things have changed that might make Google more amenable to this kind of feature.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
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Others were more amenable to the project, pointing to the city’s lack of housing.
—Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2024
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Which age groups are most amenable to in-person work, and which are most combative?
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
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But that doesn't mean that some aspects of the changes dogs have undergone aren't amenable to study.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2019
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The nonprofit seemed amenable to the request.
—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
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Yet that rhetoric is something that Americans may be amenable to.
—Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2025
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Younger generations are more than amenable to the idea of remote work.
—Stephane Kasriel, Fortune, 22 June 2019
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Aviation lives mainly in the world of physics and as such is more amenable to checklists.
—WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
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So the Mods were amenable when the group approached them for a full partnership.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
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And only certain types of problems are amenable to this approach.
—ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
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However, not every player has been as amenable to such deals.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
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Beyond that, false claims about the virus are often cut-and-dry, and therefore more amenable to fact-checks.
—Whitney Phillips, Wired, 9 Apr. 2020
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And then also replacing those lawyers with more amenable actors.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
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Those court fights, and the probe as a whole, received a boost from an amenable executive branch.
—Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2022
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This year, when Macellum boomeranged back, Kohl’s wasn’t so amenable.
—Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2022
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But recent polling suggests voters are amenable to Democrats’ moves.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
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Ian gets really lucky and Brighid seems more than amenable to having a drink with the young man.
—Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
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If your agent balks, find another one who is more amenable to cutting their levy — at least a little.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
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And no time of year is more amenable to helping hunters and trappers do just that than the coming couple of months.
—Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
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Palm Beach County voters have been amenable to school taxes in the past.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 May 2018
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Cats usually tire themselves out and will be more amenable to being touched or petted.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
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Even better, crack all of the windows a quarter of the way, if your passengers are amenable.
—Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
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