How to Use explicable in a Sentence

explicable

adjective

• That just makes how Núñez is feeling less explicable for the club.
  — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
• Dig a bit deeper, and those four straight first-round defeats are a bit more explicable.
  — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 July 2026
• It was thought to be explicable in terms of will and commitment to God.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2016
• Strange and not entirely explicable things are nowadays happening in the world of wind.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
• Our father had just endured the worst days of his life, indeed was still in the midst of them, and such a lapse ought to be both explicable and forgivable.
  — Justin Taylor, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The self-driving car suddenly opts to come to a stop, yet the human drivers see no explicable reason for the self-driving car to do so.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Throughout its 17 years, bitcoin has been defined by cycles—booms and busts that are sometimes explicable and sometimes not.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
• Science, after all, is about what is observable, quantifiable, testable, predictable, explicable — and dreams are none of these things.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• All this was explicable in part as a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of voting in the Tory leadership contest against Boris.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 13 July 2019
• Life, according to Crick, was an epiphenomenon of physics and chemistry — complex, yes, but still explicable in molecular terms.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• As ever, the director stamps it all with his unique aesthetic preferences, which are very deliberate if not always explicable.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
• Coca-Cola has also disappeared, for no explicable reason, as has the band Oasis, which may be the movie’s best and most inside-y joke.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• There's a surfeit of waiting around Chicago pools, with staff members barking commands and ordering people form lines for no explicable reason.
  — Laura Pearson, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• In other words, your body starts sweating without any explicable reason (like feelings of anxiety, hot temperatures, or exercise).
  — Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 29 June 2022
• To the contrary, stress, fear, and sadness may be completely explicable reactions to difficult situations, not signs of a pathology.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 8 Sep. 2020
• Less explicable to some observers is the lack of any apparent PR attempt to rehabilitate Miller’s image.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Most African Americans align with the Democratic Party for reasons that are explicable in terms of broad attitudes.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 May 2018
• The news comes as Twitter has been roiled by market turbulence and Musk's not-entirely-explicable concerns about the number of fake accounts on Twitter.
  — CBS News, 26 May 2022
• Booming sales of toilet paper is less explicable, however, something psychologists say is purely reactionary.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren’t outwardly explicable to the people observing them.
  — Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 23 May 2024
• Trump’s vilification of Hillary Clinton, Atwood believes, is more explicable when seen through the lens of the Puritan witch-hunts.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• But the eastern connections of the Munda languages seem clear, albeit less explicable than those of the Khasi or the Tibeto-Burman peoples of the far northeast.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
• Miracle, which the dictionary describes as a 'surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency', may be a bit much.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• Those old-fashioned TV-show plots with a premeditated murder committed for some explicable reason, that’s really an anachronism.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
• Plot is set against a backdrop of police negligence in the late 1990s and follows a real-life account of a woman forced to request social housing due to explicable and dangerous occurrences in her own house.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2025
• Second, the similarity between southwest Wales and northern England is explicable.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2012
• That has fundamentally undermined the prospect of a two-state solution, which, despite its flaws, is the best way forward to respect the explicable demand by both national communities for self-determination.
  — Richard English, TIME, 17 May 2024
• McCracken has a talent for making the imperceptible within the characters just perceptible—not explicit or explicable, those are deadly traps for characters.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Some physicists insist that everything, including humanity, is ultimately explicable in terms of particles pushed and pulled by gravity, electromagnetism and other forces.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
• That’s the only explicable reason for Australians to be riled up by comments from a guy most American fans can’t pick out of a lineup, whose most productive season came for a club literally named the Rough Riders.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026