How to Use identifiable in a Sentence

identifiable

adjective
  • Watch enough of their jokes back-to-back and identifiable patterns start to emerge.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • This guy is identifiable to people who know him.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
  • These accounts are identifiable based on the tax laws that govern them.
    — Aaron W. Clarke, Cfp, Aif, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • There’s nothing quite as identifiable as a face.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the time, slop is easily identifiable, but still, doubt creeps in.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For two years there were no identifiable photos or videos of the drones from the battlefield.
    — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • One, named Hole 3, had identifiable runes and lines running across it.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • But without an identifiable sense of humor, camp, mischief or irony, all that’s left is bad taste.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The Tiziana sail, by contrast, was cut so that each bag would be marked by those identifiable stitches.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The polyp stage comes before the animals reach their identifiable adult forms.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
  • None of the men were identifiable in the image; all were wearing balaclavas and the rest of their faces are blurred.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Plus, in more than half of the cases of repeat miscarriages, there is no identifiable cause.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 23 Feb. 2024
  • At almost 5 years old, Yun Chuan is identifiable by his long, pointy nose.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In some cases, no identifiable trigger is found.
    — Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In a swarm, there’s often no identifiable main shock or the largest quake may take place in the middle of the swarm, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In a swarm, there’s often no identifiable main shock or the largest quake may take place in the middle of the swarm, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026
  • In a swarm, there’s often no identifiable main shock or the largest quake may take place in the middle of the swarm, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Jan. 2026
  • In a swarm, there’s often no identifiable main shock or the largest quake may take place in the middle of the swarm, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Dec. 2025
  • In a swarm, there’s often no identifiable main shock or the largest quake may take place in the middle of the swarm, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • In a swarm, there’s often no identifiable main shock or the largest quake may take place in the middle of the swarm, the agency said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Whether they were being cut or starved of water, each type of stress could be matched with a specific, identifiable sound.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The hives last for six weeks — or longer — and the chances of there being an identifiable, specific trigger are low.
    — Diane Herbst, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • Several transcripts made users identifiable by name, or by details shared in the prompt.
    — Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But drawings from the 19th century show that parts of the palace were still identifiable at that point.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2021
  • This kind of shtick is readily identifiable to anyone who sat in the bleachers in gym class with a doctor’s note.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • There may not be any identifiable wreckage on the ocean floor, and important clues—such as the plane’s black box—may simply be lost.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The site promises not to share any identifiable information from the list.
    — Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • In other words, resilience now has an identifiable return.
    — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • What these two countries had in common was an identifiable strategy.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The walls of the burial chamber were also painted, but their pattern was less identifiable.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025

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