How to Use acceptable in a Sentence

acceptable

adjective

• She plays an acceptable game of tennis.
• It was an acceptable performance, although not an outstanding one.
• The key, of course, is to give your cat a place to scratch that both of you find acceptable.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 10 Sep. 2023
• In that case, the scrambling of words might seem to be acceptable.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• And will the language the developer wants in the ENA be acceptable to the city?
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Rice isn’t the only acceptable venue for these crispy cubes—far from it.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• But Sitake didn’t find that to be an acceptable answer.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Gone are the days when a cold beer or a glass of wine were the only socially acceptable ways to unwind.
  — Joshua Adragna, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
• And there’s the rub: when Waters stuck to rock star accoutrements that were acceptable in both the ‘80s and the present day (Guitar solos!
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 7 June 2023
• They were taught that the way our hair naturally comes out of our head is not acceptable.
  — As Told To Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2023
• All of these are acceptable fabrics for a rain jacket and will certainly get the job done.
  — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• To be sure, a heavy contingent of police was on hand to make sure the event did not veer outside the boundaries of acceptable protest.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Of course, at beaches and resorts, swimwear is acceptable.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 16 Oct. 2023
• The blood and prostate-specific antigen tests are acceptable as long as they are done in the same hospital or lab.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
• For decades, the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of the non-sugar sweetener has been 40 mg per kg of body weight.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 July 2023
• Those would be acceptable numbers in most sedans, but remember, this is a long EV with a big battery pack.
  — Tim Stevens, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
• While some states accept them, college IDs are not acceptable in Ohio.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• Paramedics waiting 1-2 hours in the ER for a bed and a nurse to assume care is a situation that should never be deemed acceptable.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• Miss Manners would think that any other time should be acceptable.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2023
• Is my solution acceptable to Miss Manners, or is this rude and not being a good host?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Both sides want to keep the border issue alive—to telegraph to the other side its claims are not acceptable—but both also want to avoid a major war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• For many, the idea of abandoning a site of such potent history is not acceptable.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Because in today’s world, that’s just not going to be acceptable.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
• Just one system scored acceptable: the Lexus Teammate with Advanced Drive.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Blinken was asked about Arab leaders' instance that nothing short of a total cease-fire would be acceptable.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• Fighting is acceptable in hockey, but only with fists and not sticks.
  — David Papineau, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• The average person is getting 10 times less than the acceptable daily limit, the WHO said.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 13 July 2023
• That document says the project is also dependent on funding from the team in an amount acceptable to the county.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
• Businesses are struggling with how to address the conflict and to draw clear boundaries around acceptable speech on the topic.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Is that acceptable from an ally who's asking for billions of dollars in aid?
  — CBS News, 17 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024