How to Use answerable in a Sentence

answerable

adjective

• Some of these questions may have — maybe — been more answerable.
  — Megan Stielstra, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2018
• John was soon made chief eye, answerable only to the chairman and the priest.
  — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• All the answerable questions have been answered.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• There is something in Putin that rejects governance that is not answerable to him.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 29 Jan. 2018
• But her question is never quite answered — or even, perhaps, answerable.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Those people will be answerable obviously to the voters at some point.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 26 Apr. 2021
• The stated premise is to build a school culture in which everybody is answerable to everyone else.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
• So here are very easily answerable questions for you Steve Case.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
• For each pair of entries that are connected, one is clued straightforwardly, and answerable on its own.
  — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
• Immaturity now struts in the public sphere, answerable to no one.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• Effects seem barely answerable to causes, and staged encounters are heaped one upon the next.
  — Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• These and related measures were meant to make Congress more answerable to the public.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• By mandate, the Fed is answerable to the people of the United States.
  — Peter S. Goodman, Keith Bradsher and Neil Gough, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• The Agojie were empowered elites answerable only to the king.
  — Susan X Jane, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2022
• The dispute raises some troubling, and not yet fully answerable questions.
  — Feargus O'Sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
• The fleet would not be answerable to EU rules, and would hold Russian insurance.
  — Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
• The question is answered and unanswered and answerable and unanswerable.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
• The company will be answerable to shareholders and customers.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
• All the big transnational food corporations are answerable to their owners.
  — WIRED, 30 June 2023
• Los Angeles and other big cities are answerable for potholes on the streets (but not highways) within their boundaries.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Getting this message across to executives—answerable to shareholders—and trying to give them a path forward is hard.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
• Still, the scenario the nation now finds itself in poses lots of hypothetical questions, some answerable, some less so.
  — Louis Jacobson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2020
• In addition, the leader is also answerable for the collective actions, behaviors and morale of the team.
  — Thomas Lim, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• The fourth charter change ordinance would call an election to amend the charter to make the human resources director answerable to the mayor.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 18 May 2018
• The postmaster general serves at the pleasure of the board of governors and is therefore not answerable to the president.
  — Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2021
• Its government, to be sure, would be answerable to Beijing, which also had power of approval over the city’s leadership.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• Our lame-duck governor is happily corrupt and no longer answerable to Floridians.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2026
• Out-of-scope questions about China, from Raymond’s example, wouldn’t be answerable.
  — Erik German, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
• Co-ops are, by comparison, free agents, answerable to their customers who double mostly as their regulators.
  — Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• What mine cost me was the full weight of Black comedy that thrived entirely on its own terms, answerable only to Black audiences and no one else.
  — Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026