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Example sentences for "usable"

Lexicographically close words:
urts; urus; usa; usaban; usage; usages; usaige; usan; usance
  1. Only airports with usable runways are included in this listing.

  2. It has been and will again be shown that school methods usable in meeting a war emergency are the methods not only usable but desirable under normal conditions.

  3. It was bitterly cold, yet my fingers, though numb, were usable when I reached the top; it was in exposing them to manipulate the hypsometrical instruments that they lost all feeling and came nigh freezing.

  4. Others were entirely special, usable only with the children of this particular school on this particular day.

  5. We think that into no recorded mind has the intense feeling of the usable truth ever entered more deeply than into this man’s.

  6. The Extractor selects and draws usable non-organics from the Alpha Centauri star system, and collects, converts and channels the product into its teleport shipping facility for point-to-point spunnel transfer to the Collector.

  7. Initially in Earth orbit, later in lunar space and on Luna itself, they guided settlers in developing new lifestyles and colonizing skills, and showed them how to wrest and refine usable elements and minerals from nearby sources.

  8. The matter was discussed a good deal, and it was believed that one hundred thousand words could be selected which would be usable forthwith, as well as in that long-deferred period for which it was planned.

  9. Now then: as the most valuable capital or culture or education usable in the building of novels is personal experience I ought to be well equipped for that trade.

  10. There is, however, a danger that the novice may consider any matter usable which is true to life.

  11. The surest test of a usable plot is, "Is it natural?

  12. It will very likely fail to retain the important details of a usable actual occurrence, as well as the bright idea in connection with it which flashed across your mind when first you found it.

  13. So it happens that when our most dynamic instinct--that for the reproduction of the race--is repressed, we lack one of the greatest sources of usable energy.

  14. It is a harbor after a stormy sea, not always a quiet harbor, but at least a usable one.

  15. In a like way, all the laws that investigators have put into concrete and usable form, have been used by other investigators as bases for further investigations, and by inventors as bases for future inventions.

  16. The first utilization of Oersted's discovery in a concrete and practically usable device was the galvanometer, invented by Schweigger in 1820.

  17. It was the development of an exceedingly brilliant and original idea; and, as often happens with conceptions of that kind, it was easily developed into a concrete, usable and useful thing.

  18. The investigations that we studied about when boys were such as those of Archimedes, that presented us with inventions, in the form of useful and usable laws.

  19. On the contrary, it lives, in the sense that it exists as a definite usable entity, and also in the sense that it continues to propagate.

  20. If he knows how to handle incidents, he may often by a little editing eliminate superfluous matter and convert a loose, overburdened, or merely long story into a usable bit of art.

  21. The tales that Joel Chandler Harris has assembled in this collection constitute a most charming and usable beast-epic.

  22. If the regular toilets inside the home--or the sewer lines--are not usable for any reason, an outside toilet should be built when it is safe to do so.

  23. The basements of some homes are usable as family fallout shelters as they now stand, without any alterations or changes--especially if the house has two or more stories, and its basement is below ground level.

  24. Most of the Nation's remaining food supplies would be usable after an attack.

  25. I had the best of it, for my blond curly head struck him as usable in some work of his, and my mother readily consented to my being his model.

  26. It will be remembered that the district occupied by the Belgian Army was poorly supplied with railways, roads and usable tracks.

  27. Resources are sought after, raw materials are transported and manufactured into usable products, manufactured products are exchanged for food and raw materials, and the cycle is thus completed.

  28. This point marks the maximum usable radius for particle orbits.

  29. If the experimenter wants to use the full-energy beam, he places the target at the maximum usable radius of the circulating beam (82 inches).

  30. I start this book off with such a simple example because I want you to see how completely easy it can be to make perfectly usable compost.

  31. The basic nutritional problem that all animals have is not about finding energy food, but how to intake enough vitamins, minerals and usable proteins.

  32. Gently sloping land can often carry 5 to 7 feet of open, usable soil.

  33. For some crops, deep sandy loams can provide just about as much usable moisture as clays.

  34. Such an effort is laudable when the results are intended for advanced students in the university, but it is merely suggestive to teachers rather than usable with pupils when it touches upon the primary steps of any science.

  35. Such an involved definition would not be usable to-day.

  36. The body of truth in geometry has been more clearly marked out, it has been more successfully fitted together, its lesson is more patent, and the experience of centuries has brought it into a shape that is more usable in the school.

  37. D'Alembert had demanded that the sequence of propositions should be determined by the order in which they had been discovered, but Legendre wisely ignored such an extreme and gave the world a very usable book.

  38. This is clear, but it is not so usable for beginners as Simson's definition.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.