How to Use solvable in a Sentence

solvable

adjective
  • I'm sure that the mystery of what happened to the missing pizza is solvable.
  • The good news is that this is a solvable problem.
    C200, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Ward said that gave him hope that his mother’s case is solvable.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Dec. 2025
  • This is a solvable problem, and now is the time – not in a year.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • But the problems were not all the same; some were solvable and some were not.
    Joseph T. Hallinan, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2014
  • The lack of hitting at left field and at catcher should be solvable.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • Still, this is said to be solvable for the rest of the performances.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The good news is that most of the problems raised within our study are solvable.
    Ann Kellams, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These are solvable issues, ones that come from the inside.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The first time to mark the items that impact you the most and then to mark things that might be solvable.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2025
  • With that said, this is a very solvable problem, Crimmins said.
    Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2024
  • These are solvable problems, in terms of the amount of production.
    Brad McMillan, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • For the most part, these problems are solvable – at least the ones within our own borders.
    Jill Filipovic, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But the water crisis is solvable.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The problem is likely solvable, if the world unites together to try to fix it.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Stone views this gap not as an inevitability, but as a solvable problem.
    Jordan French, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The truth is, nuclear weapons are one of the most solvable global problems.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The books were frightening, but in a new way, cool and arch, evil reduced to a solvable puzzle.
    Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Twannette Rousseau said this crime is solvable and is calling on police to step up their game.
    Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The next challenge was to frame Bill’s challenges as a solvable problem.
    Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • All that said, figuring out how to wear booties with jeans is the most easily solvable style rut out there.
    Whitney Perry, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Everything else becomes solvable once that’s in place.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Two-body problems, like mapping the movement of one planet around one star, are solvable.
    WIRED, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The Paul Problem, though, doesn’t seem solvable, even after all these years.
    Dallas News, 2 May 2022
  • That argument wasn't solvable here, and nor was another that arose.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
  • The emergencies in these shows are contained and often solvable.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • The logistical problems, those are solvable and could be overcome with the will to do so.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 4 June 2020
  • If not, work on easing two or three of the most solvable, despite not being the most important.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2025
  • As long as the research question seems solvable, it may be selected for the program.
    Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Grab a notepad and write out a list of solvable problems and possible solutions.
    Susan Moskop, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018

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