How to Use viable in a Sentence

viable

adjective

• Is she a viable candidate?
• He could not suggest a viable alternative.
• The viable seeds are heavy and will sink to the bottom of the jar.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022
• Even worse, the seeds can remain viable in the soil for years.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024
• Even worse, the seeds can remain viable in the soil for years.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
• The effort was canceled in 1983, and the method deemed not viable.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
• The aim is to make squash a more viable career option for them.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• Plus to be a viable business as an over-the-air network.
  — Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
• Supplies that are still viable should be moved to the front of the cabinet to be used first.
  — Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Dec. 2021
• The plants die back in the fall or early winter while the roots remain viable.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
• The Zone needs a certain number of students to be viable.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
• Al Jazeera failed to build a viable audience and shut down in 2016.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 23 Oct. 2021
• This is meant to be a stepping stone to be able to scale up and match with the gene sequence and see if this is viable for H5N1.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The town is very viable, new businesses are coming in all the time.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• So, to assess if an idea is viable, the person who thinks of the idea should create a one-sheet right away.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
• The leaves and twigs on the major branches of tree, however, have all been burnt and are no longer viable.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Zoo officials say the park didn’t have a viable breeding pair of the monkeys for many years.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• But Travis Bickle is still out there as a viable avatar of our culture.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022
• But your new agreement, signed and dated by both of you, is viable and protects both of you.
  — Jann Blackstone, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• And in many cases, these are the pregnancies that are wanted, hoped and prayed for and longed for and timed to the day — but are not viable.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• Most had been dead for weeks, if not months, making the men’s sperm no longer viable for use – except for Yotam’s.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
• For the product to work, there must be a viable hair follicle under the skin.
  — Rebecca Deczynski, Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• This is no country for old men who are trying to keep their gold mines viable.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2022
• Though Minshew started most of the games in the 2024 season, he was still not seen as a fully viable starter.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
• To take advantage of this, back one of the two viable teams with plus money odds to advance.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• If the district is to remain viable, this trend must be reversed.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
• And Hamas still represents a viable threat to the Israeli people.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
• The 140-year-old coastal rail line is the only viable route for passenger and freight trains between San Diego and the rest of the United States.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
• Iowa State looked like a viable Big 12 contender last weekend.
  — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
• As wildfires burn more frequently across larger and larger swaths of land, the demand for viable seeds and greenhouse space to start the trees also grows.
  — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025