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Example sentences for "debatable"

Lexicographically close words:
debased; debasement; debases; debasing; debat; debate; debateable; debated; debater; debaters
  1. The interest-share of the product is morally debatable as to its ownership.

  2. For mass or prayer can I rarely tarry, Save to patter an Ave Mary When I ride on a Border foray.

  3. In the last town of the line, Longtown, our machine fairly balked, and the chauffeur with dignity retired under it.

  4. Coppet but as the variety is not now catalogued and no copy seems to be known we presume its authenticity is a debatable question.

  5. It is only about sixteen miles east of Pawnee Rock, and included in that region of debatable ground where no band of Indians dared establish a permanent village; for it was claimed by all the tribes, but really owned by none.

  6. He began his adventurous journey across the vast wilderness, with no companions but the savages of the debatable land, in 1804; and following him the next year, James Pursley undertook the same pilgrimage.

  7. Unless, of course, it had to do with that enduring image of the bird storm-beaten, weary of wing and bewildered by the dark, risking the debatable mercy of mankind in its stark necessity.

  8. The original programme of the society involved a systematic investigation of "that large group of debatable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical, and Spiritualistic.

  9. In addition to these is a large collection of debatable questions.

  10. But Ucker-mark was a Border, or Debatable land in the eyes of the Slavonians, as well as their conquerors; and the name of its original occupants signified Borderers.

  11. His boldness in considering some of these questions debatable at all, the novelty of the doubt which they imply, and their incisive challenge to keen thinking are evident from the following list: 1.

  12. In such cases, however, the validity of the distinctions must be debatable and fluctuating.

  13. If you will retreat again back into the region of simple spiritual intuitions, and abandon to reason this debatable land, how gladly would we follow you!

  14. Marches of Wales were definitely united to England; when Clifford and other places, which were before a debatable land of bloodshed and confusion, became a part of Herefordshire.

  15. In ancient times, it was a debatable land of another kind, when Romans, Saxons, and Normans, strove by turns against the aboriginal Britons.

  16. It applies to questions of privilege [§ 12] as well as any other debatable questions.

  17. The Previous Question [§ 20] can be applied to these, as to all other debatable questions.

  18. A motion to reconsider a vote on a debatable question, opens to debate the entire merits of the original motion.

  19. His place was on the debatable ground between the hostile divisions of the community, and he never wandered far beyond the frontier of either.

  20. There was, therefore, near the border some debatable ground on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place, till, after ages of strife, plain and durable landmarks were at length set up.

  21. At the time of the American Revolution the West Indies represented a debatable ground where British interests clashed with those of her enemies, France, Spain, and Holland.

  22. Meanwhile the debatable points are rich in interest and suggestion.

  23. It is also an abandonment of the pretence that the question is not a debatable or open one.

  24. Bavaria was overrun by bands of ferocious warriors from that bloody debatable land which lies on the frontier between Christendom and Islam.

  25. Between these two hostile regions lay, morally as well as geographically, a great debatable land.

  26. France might be considered as a debatable land, in which the contest was still undecided.

  27. In this debatable territory are numerous forts, both French and English.

  28. Blake softly, and, crouching down to avoid as much as possible being detected in the starlight, the boys went cautiously into the debatable territory.

  29. In this debatable land their numbers increased until, Slavs though they mainly were, they became a menace to the growing power of the Czars.

  30. The great hunting-grounds between the Ohio and the Tennessee formed a debatable land, claimed by every tribe that could hold its own against its rivals.

  31. This region, one of the fairest in the world, was the debatable ground between the northern and the southern Indians.

  32. And they are great on 'Salix;' and have a good many quarrels over that and other debatable subjects too.

  33. The 150 miles of debatable ground, the dispute over which brought on the war, was lost sight of.

  34. This left a strip about 150 miles wide as debatable ground.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debatable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arguable; conjectural; controversial; debatable; disputable; doubtful; dubious; moot; open; problematic; problematical; question; questionable; speculative; suspect; suspicious; theoretical; tricky; unresolved