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, 13 July 2025
  • Even worse, the seeds can remain viable in the soil for years.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The first five weeks of the season — capped by a Thursday night game against the Rams — will represent a viable checkpoint for San Francisco.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Canada is the second-largest country in the world and flying is often the only viable option.
    Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025

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