How to Use drivable in a Sentence

drivable

adjective
  • That number may be out of reach four decades later, but the car is said to still be drivable.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2025
  • To draw publicity and tourism to the country’s public lands and to push for drivable roads that connect them.
    — Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Police said Milne’s vehicle had bottomed out on the terrain and was not drivable.
    — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The 11th hole is a drivable par 4 measuring 348 yards.
    — Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • My neighbors canceled their big out-West experience and opted for a drivable beach trip with three kids under age 6.
    — Beth Collums, AJC.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • It was built to a singular purpose—to be a daily-drivable car capable of 250 mph in the hands of anybody who had enough road (and guts) to try.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The Pregunta was also inspected and serviced in 2021, and is still drivable.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The pickup sustained minor damage and was in drivable condition following the collision.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
  • Unlike traditional parade balloons, which are filled with helium, balloonicles are filled with cold air and are moved by a drivable vehicle.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Road crews throughout Maryland will be busy into Monday morning, making sure road conditions are drivable during and after this winter storm.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Despite the 13th hole being drivable for every player in the field, Rai's birdie actually picked up a shot on plenty of the contenders on Sunday.
    — Mark Harris, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • Giants Ridge is more than just its iconic 17th hole at The Legend or the drivable par 4 13th hole at The Quarry.
    — Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, a number of Atlanta’s suburbs are shunning the drivable strip malls of yesteryear in favor of live-work-play districts such as Alpharetta’s Avalon.
    — Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Officer notes possible violations The officer told CBS News Miami that all tags must be up to date and the cars must be drivable to meet code.
    — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • About 85 percent of the original road is still drivable, although signage is sparse and Google Maps doesn’t recognize Route 66 as a single continuous path.
    — Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Europe’s 2014 captain McGinley figured out that the Gleneagles course in Scotland had three par fives on even numbered holes, with a drivable par four, also an even number.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • While Rai's 70-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole will understandably garner tons of attention for days to come, his birdie on the drivable par-4 13th hole was, up to this point, the defining moment of his career.
    — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
  • Still, Road & Track said at the time that the 512 BB was a better car, and more drivable, a verdict that has held up in the decades since by anyone who has ever sat in the driver’s seat of a Countach.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This quadruped robot, which comprises highly back-drivable legs to reproduce the flexibility of animals and torque-controllable motors, can reproduce muscle characteristics of animals.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2021
  • If drivers are involved in a minor accident where there are no injuries, and the vehicles are drivable, then police request that residents exchange insurance information and let the insurance companies handle it instead of calling 911.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Those cars remained drivable, but in some cases, features that relied on the 3G network—including SOS emergency assistance and automatic crash notifications—just stopped working.
    — Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • How to Get There Located on the western edge of the Florida panhandle, Pensacola is technically drivable—in three hours or more—from cities like New Orleans, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Orlando.
    — Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Cities to Visit Long Beach Peninsula On the other side of the Columbia, Long Beach Peninsula on Washington’s Evergreen Coast is said to have the world’s longest drivable beach at 28 miles.
    — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Long Beach Peninsula, Washington This 28-mile stretch of land on the southern coast of Washington state, bounded by the Pacific Ocean, Willapa Bay, and the Columbia River, is the longest drivable beach in the country, accessible from both the Seattle and Portland airports.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2025
  • In a significant promotional event, a life-size drivable LEGO version, constructed from over 327,000 bricks, achieved a record-setting 69mph at Goodwood Circuit, underscoring the collaboration between LEGO and Koenigsegg.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

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