How to Use estimable in a Sentence

estimable

adjective

• We owe thanks to our estimable colleague.
• She has written an estimable novel.
• If the amount isn’t estimable, then the company is supposed to record the amount as zero.
  — Jonathan Weil, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Cave’s foils were his estimable band, the mighty Bad Seeds, and the audience.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2017
• My son-in-law, the estimable Ryan Mavriplis, likes country music.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
• That, combined with the films’ estimable craft, will be impossible to ignore.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Ryan Gosling has a vehicle tailor-made for his movie star charisma and estimable talents.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• Still, Fields' estimable potential suggests the Lions might even have to move up a few spots to get him.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
• If the amount is estimable, the company is supposed to record it as a liability.
  — Jonathan Weil, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• The list of former aides and secretaries who first saw their names and faces on magazine or tabloid covers then found themselves out of work is estimable.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
• Leave it to the estimable and long-winded Ben Thompson, who this time justifies his word count, to explain why.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2019
• Her history, in other words, has been estimable, even as various failures and missteps over the years make her legacy quite mixed.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 8 June 2022
• Purloe’s is the kind of place that puts you mind to have an after dinner drink from an estimable list that, logically, is rich in Irish whiskies.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• The principals will all be, as the estimable John Powers says, under de facto house arrest.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
• There is a gap for reinforcements, just as there is at right centre-half behind the estimable Fabian Schar.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025
• There’s even a website, the estimable CelebHeights, devoted to the topic.
  — Kristin Iversen, refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• The estimable Michael Caine, at a professional crossroads, played the villain.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2021
• Those visuals swamped the singers, including the estimable Matthias Goerne.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Ask him about the estimable teeth marks gouged by Sonny Rollins into his mouthpiece after endless hours of intense practice.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• The estimable bass-baritone Dashon Burton more than filled the relatively small role of Lucifer.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Xabi Alonso, its estimable young coach, remains on course to claim a treble — league, cup, Europa League — in his first full season.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Mantello does some of his finest work in a heartfelt revival that will be remembered for the estimable Lane’s career-crowning performance.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Her Sansa began the show as a naive, vulnerable teenager and ended it as a pillar of steel, a leader and tactician at the estimable peak of her powers.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
• He's now got Moore to throw to with what should be premium reinforcements in tow in what could now be a very quick rebuild centered around Fields' estimable talent.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• The label’s estimable roster would come to include the Ramones, Talking Heads and Madonna among many others.
  — Seymour Stein, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2017
• Tony nominee Marla Mindelle, who plays Céline, is an estimable loon — a loon with enviable comedic chops and glorious vocals.
  — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 15 May 2026
• Over the course of the evening, Hedda’s job is to lubricate the estimable Professor Greenwood (Finbar Lynch), in whose hands her husband’s fate lies.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
• But all that estimable ability was going to waste in Carolina, where the Panthers sport a league-worst 1-5 record and fired head coach Matt Rhule five games into his third season.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• With French horn, tuba and baritone sax, Shelby’s instrumentation tracks the original’s, with the estimable Mike Olmos in the trumpet chair.
  — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 28 May 2026