How to Use defensible in a Sentence

defensible

adjective

• The city has a defensible location.
• Both candidates hold defensible positions on the issue.
• Slavery is not morally defensible.
• Under those circumstances, her actions were completely defensible.
• While the above may be defensible on some level, this one is not.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• That’s anger on top of anger over cases that are not very defensible.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2023
• That would be a defensible deal for Utah, even as the point guard ages.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• That’s how trust gets built, one defensible result at a time.
  — Ajai Sehgal, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Maranghides told me that the idea of defensible space has at times become part of the problem.
  — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
• So at that point at least, tossing the chips at Homer seemed defensible.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2017
• But there are plenty of defensible reasons to stay the course, too.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2018
• Lynn’s dismissal would be defensible — but painful for people who know him.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
• The goal is to lessen the risk by maintaining a defensible space that does not add fuel to a fire.
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2021
• Those living in rural areas need to get out and get their defensible space done.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• That gives you a defensible audit trail.
  — Abhijeet Mukkawar, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Honest mistakes made in good faith would still be defensible.
  — Dave Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
• Some of what Yglesias seems to be saying in this tweet is defensible.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• But for Almasque, the very nature of this means the tech may not be defensible.
  — Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
• The 100 feet of defensible space doesn’t mean every plant will be yanked out.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
• The selection process was flawed, to say the least, but the outcome is defensible.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
• Ukraine had to pull back to more defensible positions.
  — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• There has been no shortage of defensible reasons to be bullish on banks at various times this year.
  — Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Very few in that group find the substance of the impeachment inquiry to be defensible.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
• That excess is less defensible when balanced against cutting the meat and bones of other sports.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 July 2020
• In the world of war into which it has been thrust, Israel has no other defensible choice.
  — James F. Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2023
• This time, there are multiple ways out, and each of them have has a defensible rationale.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 20 July 2019
• And even in hindsight, the initial judgment may have been defensible.
  — Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
• Mare’s actions as defensible, the series nods at the countless ways in which cops can abuse their powers.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2021
• In this area, be sure to give sheds and propane tanks their own defensible space, just like around the house, and prune all low branches to 6 feet.
  — Bryce Young Christopher Moran, WIRED, 20 July 2024
• Everyone needs to maintain a defensible space that doesn’t add fuel to the fire.
  — oregonlive, 14 July 2021