How to Use liable in a Sentence

liable

adjective

• If someone gets hurt on your property, you could be liable.
• Rodriguez found the Air Force was 60 percent liable for the shooting, and placed the rest of the blame on the shooter.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2023
• Can SpaceX be held liable for its space junk hitting the Moon?
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Cates flipped to the second page: The jurors had found Blue Cross liable for fraud.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 12 Apr. 2025
• In July, the judge found the Air Force mostly liable for the shooting.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Stay above the second apron for three years in a five-year span and your first-round pick is liable to be bumped to the end of the round.
  — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 4 July 2025
• By the end of the trial, Heard was found liable in all three matters of defamation raised.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 12 May 2025
• But Read could still be held liable for O’Keefe’s death in civil court.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 June 2025
• In 2022, Spacey was found not liable for battery against Rapp.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025
• The 50-year-old actress was found not liable in the lawsuit on Thursday.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• But that seemed liable to be treated like a bathroom wall at a dive bar.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 July 2021
• The Dodgers in 2014 were found partly liable for Stow’s injuries.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• So sue me: Who should be held liable when AI makes mistakes ...
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2023
• Days before the trial began, the judge in the case found the defendants liable for fraud.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
• So it’s the person tweeting, not Twitter, who is liable for the speech.
  — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 12 May 2022
• Strong wind is liable to topple a cage laden with a heavy tomato plant.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2025
• List on Sunday, and your house is liable to sell more quickly.
  — Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 9 June 2021
• Every one of them is liable to give you goose bumps or knock your shoulders back.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
• Among the board's many questions: Who will be liable if something goes wrong?
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 22 June 2021
• That case ended in May 2023, and Sheeran was not found liable.
  — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
• All three should be held liable, the court filing stated.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• Part of the issue is that the man can take too much off the trees, which residents in the neighborhood are liable for.
  — Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
• Gothold said that if the district is sued about the map, the district could be liable for attorneys’ fees.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• He was later found liable for the deaths in a civil suit brought by the families.
  — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
• He was found liable for the deaths of Brown Simpson and Goldman in a civil trial.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
• To work for the fair allocation of taxpayer dollars, fair and a liable wage.
  — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
• However, from time to time mistakes will be made and we will not be held liable.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
• However, from time to time mistakes will be made and we will not be held liable.
  — Makenzie Huber, States Newsroom, 12 Feb. 2026
• But the effects of a cap would be so broad that any single talking point is liable to undersell the impact.
  — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• However, from time to time mistakes will be made and we will not be held liable.
  — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Feb. 2026