How to Use admirable in a Sentence

admirable

adjective
  • Loyalty was her most admirable quality.
  • That’s been an admirable part of their build.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • His words hint at an admirable amount of awareness.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Those are admirable goals, even if they can’t always be achieved.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • That’s admirable, but this wasn’t about the final score.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Vitor Pereira has done an admirable job so far.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Just getting up and getting on planes at that age is admirable.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This desire to forge a bond between the old and the new is admirable.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
  • The honey does an admirable job of couching the rum’s heavy funk.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 6 June 2026
  • Yes, beating the market six years in a row seems like an admirable feat.
    — Meir Statman, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
  • All of these flourishes are done with an admirable straight face.
    — Brian Feldman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That Burns was in that role and holding his own at his age is admirable.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • On some level, his refusal to change over the years has been admirable.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 8 July 2019
  • Your high standards are admirable, and those freshmen are lucky to have you.
    — cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021
  • But that’s just one of many of this salad’s admirable features.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Mar. 2025
  • What was most admirable about these new pieces was the relaxed feel of each garment.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The amount of growth the character has shown over the last six episodes has been admirable.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
  • On a smaller scale, even the admirable Torey Krug has moved on.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • This is both an admirable sentiment and an easy one for Lear to have had.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
  • All of that is admirable, but none of it exempts the show from criticism.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Is following the heart there an admirable act, or a selfish one?
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • That, to me, is the most admirable and applicable thing of all.
    — Christine Werthman, Billboard, 26 June 2024
  • That sense of sort of self-possession is quite admirable and, again, this is so new for the both of us.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Many of the stylist’s pulls worn by Ross come across as organic which is admirable.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 25 July 2025
  • His work in education over the years has been admirable.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In a world addicted to hype cycles, those traits aren’t just admirable.
    — Lisa Song Sutton, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Having the willingness to do it is an admirable trait, but that would lead him to a sort of death.
    — Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The intent to improve is admirable—who doesn't want to be better, faster, and smarter?
    — Stephen Miles, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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