How to Use appreciable in a Sentence

appreciable

adjective
  • The best way to use them is to fund them with appreciable assets.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Most labs will take at least a few weeks to see any appreciable difference.
    — Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • There’s an appreciable chance that someone will be killed by space debris this decade.
    — Moriba Jah, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022
  • At least until there is an appreciable threat to their power.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 22 June 2021
  • By three to six months, most patients can see appreciable volume gains.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Canola production is down, and bee health has shown no appreciable change.
    — Jon Entine, Slate Magazine, 30 June 2017
  • Non-white racial groups did not see appreciable changes at some academies.
    — Aaron Morrison, Helen Wieffering and Noreen Nasir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • For children, who had no copay, there was no appreciable change.
    — Don Sapatkin, Philly.com, 19 July 2017
  • Drilling is the primary way to survey a site, at an appreciable cost.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
  • Life is only appreciable by way of the absence that precedes it.
    — Suzannah Showler, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The sedan on city streets is using a fair bit less, so this can start to be an appreciable part of that total power.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Some key players have been injured, but the team has not shown any appreciable decline in its level of play.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The Monday after the race is listed as the first day with any appreciable chance of rain.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 14 May 2017
  • To date, there does not appear to be any appreciable improvement.
    — Tyler Langan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Some showers remain possible, but the best odds of any appreciable rain should stay to our south.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
  • That may not sound like a big deal, but two or three degrees is an appreciable difference during the overnight hours.
    — Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The tactile feedback guides your finger, and there was no appreciable lag in our sessions.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The sap doesn’t flow to any appreciable extent; few red robins are visible, and there is no excess of greensward.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The kokanee have yet to show in appreciable numbers, but this hasn’t stopped anglers from trying.
    — sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The Buffalo-style wings are good, and even the mild version has an appreciable kick.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • But don’t worry, despite the appreciable increase in oomph, the car will still be street legal.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2021
  • While that weight is appreciable, the top speed figures aren’t really something to write home about.
    — New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The first two episodes are especially lacking in any kind of appreciable form.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Changing from kilograms to pounds doesn’t make much of an appreciable distance at these scales, either.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2019
  • One mystery was why the insects would gnaw at the wood of their boxes without any appreciable effect.
    — National Geographic, 8 Feb. 2020
  • No appreciable rain is expected across North Texas through next week.
    — Dallas News, 11 June 2020
  • The speakers perform admirably for the rest of the track, with appreciable treble and a strong balance.
    — PCMAG, 7 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, there won’t be an appreciable difference.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Pet waste, Bower said, is an appreciable source of fecal waste in the watershed.
    — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • This is a place where stars slingshot around apparently empty space at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.
    — Seth Fletcher, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2022

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