How to Use passable in a Sentence

passable

adjective

• He did a passable job with the assignment.
• The river is passable during the summer months.
• The main road is passable but most others are still covered with snow.
• She plays passable golf but prefers tennis.
• Crews will clear one passable lane down the middle of these streets.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 24 Jan. 2026
• Crews will clear one passable lane down the middle of the street on these roads.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 21 Nov. 2025
• Crews will clear one passable lane down the middle of the street on these roads.
  — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 2 Dec. 2025
• No one had cell service, no one knew which bridges were out, which roads were passable.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• Not just the most passable one Netflix can get to our screens.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
• Streets still have some snow on them so motorists need to drive with care, but the streets are passable.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2024
• The route is only passable in winter, when the rivers and lakes have frozen over.
  — Victoria Petersen, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
• He isn’t asked to do much else, and has a long way to go as a passable defender.
  — Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• Northern routes were long only passable in warmer months.
  — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
• Plow drivers are working through the nor’easter to keep roads passable.
  — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
• The sound itself is passable, as is the climate and nav system.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The city will pay private contractors to clear one passable lane on these roads.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 21 Nov. 2025
• The city will pay private contractors to clear one passable lane on these roads.
  — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 2 Dec. 2025
• Even five days after the storm first hit land, portions of the road are barely passable.
  — Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The people who are not passable, the people who are clockable.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2019
• Both were dark and strewn with twigs and some shingles, but passable in both directions.
  — Steven Lemongello, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Contractors will clear one passable lane down the center of these roads.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 24 Jan. 2026
• While the city has worked to make the roads passable, the repairs were meant to be temporary.
  — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2025
• When the team played rock music, Cog managed to beat out a passable rhythm on a snare drum.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
• The 10-episode season is passable, even pleasing, for the most part.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• In the meantime, Yeager said, the state will keep the road passable for those who live or work there.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• Because Reminders of Him might be her most passable film yet.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026
• Then, after two glorious weeks of passable good health, my body started to ache.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
• Water rescues are still in progress and many roads in the metro area are not passable because of high water.
  — Bobby Shipman, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2018
• And even this was at best passable with a good price point for a Sonoma County white.
  — Tan Vinh and Owen Bargreen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• The county hopes to get all roads passable by Tuesday morning.
  — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026