How to Use separable in a Sentence

separable

adjective

• His religious and political beliefs are not always separable from each other.
• Their build features a 12cm-tall space shuttle complete with a launch pad and three separable stages.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2017
• In other words, Solms wants to move past the model of mind that sees clear-eyed thought as somehow separable from our baser feelings.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• In my view, our reticence stems from a belief that investments and values are separable.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
• Meck believes there are two separate brain areas for those functions, though most likely not separable.
  — Alan Burdick, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• This means that, in practice, the problem of gay parenting and the problem of the lab baby aren’t fully separable.
  — Bethel McGrew, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
• If, however, the service is part of a gym or other fitness center package that isn’t separable, there’s no tax payable.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
• The Russian people and elite can still calculate that their fates are readily separable from his.
  — WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Weather and climate aren’t easily separable, though, and never have been.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
• At the same time, solid-propellant rockets would blast the separable cap away from the MEM.
  — David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2012
• In any event, here as elsewhere, power over grants of citizenship is separable from power over migration.
  — Ilya Somin, Washington Post, 21 May 2017
• But Hendren’s project also has a kind of deep beauty that is neither separable from design nor fully accountable to it.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
• Nowotny and his team have found that separable odors aren’t perceived at the same time; rather, the coffee and croissant odors are processed very rapidly in alternation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2018
• Most of the animals sold in such markets are produced by smallholders, not large industrial concerns, but the two are not easily separable.
  — Laura Spinney, Time, 13 Apr. 2020
• In other words, there is a conservative tradition that is clearly separable and distinct from Trumpism.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Oct. 2017
• The two work together and were not generally considered separable.
  — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 7 June 2024
• But the results from Gallant’s team suggest that these different networks might be too intimately intertwined to be separable.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• As several commenters noted, an extra layer is not necessary for this problem — the seven outputs are linearly separable.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
• But Maria Brumm makes a good argument for why the risk-communication & quake-prediction sides of l'Aquila aren't separable.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2012
• Technological progress rarely arrives in cleanly separable pieces.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 June 2026
• The innovation of the BPE is to make the two discoveries separable, meaning that the same drug need not be both lifesaving and lifestyle-improving.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• There are also separable enamel and silver-finish brass heart necklaces and rings (to share with your best friend), leather dog collars, leashes with waste bag holders, wallets, card holders, metal flasks and other accoutrements for humans and pets.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022
• Safety remains a top priority, with multiple backup systems and a separable cabin that protects passengers even if the power unit experiences issues.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2025
• Physical activity is a non-separable part of this experience, and it's couched within a traditional role playing game (RPG) game design style.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
• Its exaggerations are wilder, its hallucinations are colder, and its physical realities and dramatic specifics are even less separable from the elements of fantasy.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2020
• This was the discrepancy that motivated my original curiosity about DWeb and Web3 as entwined by separable strands.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2022
• Each iteration slots into the complex order of things known as Stevie Nicks; each era separable but contiguous, all routed through her mild witchery and intense American mysticism.
  — Jill Spivey Caddell, Longreads, 26 May 2022
• This is known as technical-social dualism, the idea that the technical and social dimensions of engineering problems are readily separable and remain distinct throughout the problem-definition and solution process.
  — Grace Wickerson, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2022
• Observation and active engagement were never entirely separable.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• But is neoliberalism really separable from what Fukuyama dubs classical liberalism?
  — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022