How to Use observable in a Sentence
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Plus, the fabric was in good shape, with no observable flaws.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
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This footage is truly unique, since this view of the sun is not observable on earth.
—Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2020
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Malware was reused, observable and slow to evolve.
—Ken Ammon, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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In this scenario, the observable universe is like a very large box.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
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The weak force is not observable at normal scales of distance.
—David Joffe, The Conversation, 9 Feb. 2026
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Bowie set his sights on the ends of the observable universe, and on places even darker.
—Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
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The airplane is very much built to go into combat and be low-observable.
—William Langewiesche, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
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Only his eyes were observable, darting back and forth as the judge read the verdict.
—Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
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These stars produce observable light of many colors by fusing atoms in their cores.
—Sophia Chen, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
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What starts at a Planck and ends with the entire observable universe?
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 June 2022
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Part of the shock is that there are no visible signs--even when the observable signs are glowing.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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In people, change is slow, but in a garden and in our plants, the change is observable daily.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
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The collection came about from a more observable kind of travel.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
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These targets were easily observable through the walls of the tank.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Jan. 2022
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Right now, our observable horizon is about 45 billion light-years away.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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The first thing a marketer should do is look at weekly sales for the last few years to see if there was an observable effect.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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But what observable effect has this cavalcade of chaos had on the stock market?
—Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
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The event is observable from anywhere on Earth, provided the sky is clear.
—Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2020
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The electron, muon and tau flavors would all be observable, at least in principle.
—William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
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The question, then, was how to connect it to properties that are observable.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Feb. 2019
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And that is not to say that there is a physical observable which can be infinite in nature.
—Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
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One of the main goals of the telescope is to study distant galaxies close to the edge of observable universe.
—Marcia Rieke, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
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The legacy of such an administration has been all the more observable as of late.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
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Just turn the lights off—so there are no observable changes in light to go along with the acoustic vibrations—and remove the bulbs.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
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There’s nothing wrong with that, but the observable crinkles may be diminished.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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And even at the premiere, the long sleeves of an oversized shirt kept the tattoo from being fully observable.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 10 Nov. 2021
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And importantly, both signs should be observable in your daily life.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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Of course, models off duty are hardly a monolith, but there are a few observable patterns.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 25 May 2026
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After all, our images of this object were taken from clear across the observable universe.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
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But entanglement is now accepted as an observable fact, if only in the realm of the very small.
—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2012
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