How to Use laudable in a Sentence

laudable

adjective
  • Improving the schools is a laudable goal.
  • That’s a laudable goal, but actions need to match the rhetoric.
    — Stephanie Murphy, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
  • And, indeed, this one small firm boasts a laudable record of such work.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Young has taken a laudable stance that also sucks for many of his fans.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
  • This is not to say that all the women running are laudable or up to the job.
    — Chloe Angyal, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That’s a laudable goal, but one that will be very hard to deliver on.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That’s a laudable trait for, say, a relief pitcher who coughs up a home run.
    — Willie Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
  • No child should consider the mere act of waking to be laudable.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Intuition will show us what is laughable and what is laudable.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But Kennedy has already made that laudable goal even less achievable.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Not that the impulse to look outward rather than inward isn’t laudable.
    — Meghan Daum, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Emerging from the group stage would be a hugely laudable achievement.
    — Martin Rogers, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • The splurge wasn't just for the sake of a custom gown, but would benefit a laudable cause.
    — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 3 May 2019
  • While those are laudable goals, the details are squishy and not essential.
    — Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
  • Granted, there are those who want to drop weight and bolster strength for health reasons, which is a laudable goal.
    — Faith Salie, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Some of the excitement around these kinds of AI art is laudable, even.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023
  • And that's some laudable restraint with a pooch as precious as Eebbers.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
  • That sort of out-of-the-box thinking is laudable in today’s society.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 10 May 2017
  • But that point-of-view only makes Hermanus' mission all the more laudable.
    — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But that point-of-view only makes Hermanus’ mission all the more laudable.
    — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
  • To be clear, there are laudable ideas, from a public health perspective, in the new guidelines.
    — Vishal Khetpal, STAT, 30 Jan. 2026
  • That’s extremely laudable, as was the way Duke played in overtime.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Many of its overarching goals are laudable.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And if that means rich and poor alike are reporting large and small amounts of income as tips, that too is a laudable outcome.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The initiative, however laudable, is just the tip of the iceberg.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • While making health care more affordable is a laudable goal, it can’t be done on the back of Bayh-Dole.
    — Joseph P. Allen, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The story construction is laudable, the supporting roles and even the bit roles are superbly cast and played.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • If nothing else, not hogging the credit that belongs to those who write the jokes and perform the sketches is laudable.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 June 2023
  • Beating Cal was laudable given the circumstances, and having one game this week is a plus.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But the idea behind Icon Composer and the new icon system is laudable, at least.
    — ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025

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