How to Use definable in a Sentence

definable

adjective
  • There was a time in my life when running served a clear and definable purpose.
    — Devin, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The genders of many of my figures were not definable.
    — Gabe Montesanti, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Of course this isn’t definable, but there have to be parameters for a site.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
  • So what should a company do when there isn’t a definable mainstream?
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Players should bet large both with their very best hands and, as bluffs, with some definable percentage of their very worst hands.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • There’s another layer to this as well, one less definable but no less important.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2020
  • There may be definable clusters of stars up there which can be seen from Earth as constellations, or there may not be.
    — Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • But in most of her depictions, faces and definable people are largely absent, at least as images.
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 17 June 2019
  • But the games do need to be good for Netflix — which is not an easily definable trait for Loombe and her team yet.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 June 2022
  • Weddings are like airports–liminal spaces that exist out of time and definable space.
    — Bobby Finger june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • In some not-quite-definable way, the film itself is all of a piece with Rogers’s principled gentleness.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
  • In some not-quite-definable way, the film itself is all of a piece with Rogers’s principled gentleness.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2018
  • In the immediate days after the killings, the bags were bigger; the remains, more definable.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Their roles are easily definable.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One of the things Sundance has long made clear is that there is no single, easily definable festival.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • This is laudable, and again flying less is a real, definable strategy that companies can easy adopt.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Ranching’s realm is really, then, definable as being where most people are absent.
    — Jennifer Percy, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Without some definable parameters, your best intentions can get lost in the shuffle.
    — Kelly Mickle, SELF, 29 Dec. 2025
  • So much of the success in this league is really geared toward a group of guys being tied together in the locker room and having a set of definable skills.
    — Dwain Price, star-telegram.com, 5 May 2017
  • The leap from image proliferation on social media to a definable increase in tourism was made — even though not a shred of hard data backs up the claim.
    — Christopher Knight Art Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2021
  • While there are definable risks, sharing data has enormous benefits at all levels of society.
    — Sam Mugel, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Despite definable efforts that can be put in place to combat the risks of synthetic media, this isn’t a task that businesses can tackle on their own.
    — Perry Carpenter, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • And jettisoning silly claptrap about good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, and a clear, easily definable line that demarcates it all.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 May 2021
  • There was a set of values – that had sort of been there and implicit, but not wrapped up together in any kind of definable boundary – that came to reshape the culture.
    — Amanda Paulson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2020
  • The definable ones suggest Sporting KC isn’t missing the man who led the club in scoring each of the past three seasons.
    — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The cello melody that emerges with falling gestures is instantly memorable but not easily definable.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Original older models can sell for thousands of dollars, depending on their condition and a definable artist.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • For once it had been achieved in the deserts of West Asia, so the very notion of wind as a linguistically definable entity took off everywhere.
    — Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
  • There’s no definable main protagonist in this novel, or a specific question that’s being asked, or even a clear narrative engine driving the story.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • McCoy and his colleagues believed that more American bloodshed in a conflict without a definable end could no longer be justified.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022

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