How to Use compensable in a Sentence

compensable

adjective
  • Any emotional toll on them should be compensable.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Property damage, losses of businesses' income, all those things are compensable damages.
    Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The plaintiffs also pointed to earlier cases in which courts held that mandatory screenings and time spent walking from time clocks to workstations were both compensable.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Any claim by you that may arise in connection with these Terms of Use will be compensable by monetary damages and you will in no event be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief.
    britannica.com, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Secretary Kennedy’s team seeks to make autism compensable under vaccine-injury rules, turning diagnoses into groundless lawsuits while draining resources from real causes and care.
    Tom Frieden, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The actions of the Sheriff’s Office have caused psychological injury, loss of income and benefits, emotional distress, damage to Her’s reputation and compensable losses, the lawsuit states.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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