How to Use teachable in a Sentence

teachable

adjective
  • The book's style makes it very teachable.
  • There will be many teachable points when the film is reviewed.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2021
  • That is why this moment should be treated as a teachable one.
    — Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Who needs a teachable moment when there are monsters at the bus stop?
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • That was more than 15 years and countless teachable lessons ago.
    — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
  • For her, the carving presents a teachable moment for her nine-year-old son.
    — Sonam Vashi, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable moments are heard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Benjamin follows him and tries to force him to see this as a teachable moment.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 22 June 2021
  • Quinn watched the program this year and found teachable moments for players.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Pixar movies are full of teachable moments for the modern age, but the older movies can be, too.
    — refinery29.com, 15 June 2018
  • All of this may add up to something of a teachable moment for the fast-fashion model.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Johnson-Pitt turned it into a teachable moment for both of them.
    — Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This twilight for the anti-Trump idols should be a teachable moment in two ways.
    — Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Abuse of power is another concept that’s teachable at a young age.
    — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In classic black-ish fashion, the episode ends with a teachable moment that comes full circle.
    — refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • There are so many teachable moments in technology use because no one knows the best way to do this.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 17 July 2018
  • Popovich chalked the miscue up as another teachable moment in a season full of them for his young team.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The most important thing Dallas can do is find a player who is teachable.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The last few years have been a teachable moment for businesses and consumers about value.
    — Sanjib Sahoo, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The Times’s crossword audience to be, can be used as a teachable moment.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • There are good sections on dental health — teachable moments on where failure to floss will lead you — and diet.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Which doesn’t mean the film is some kind of terrible black mark on his record; there are more than a few good nuggets in all those teachable moments.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Moving forward, Bihl hopes that her near-miss with tragedy will serve as a teachable moment for others.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2021
  • Why not make this a teachable moment and try to instill Darwin’s concept of survival of the fittest?
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • This is a teachable moment for those opposed to Civil War Days.
    — Charles Selle, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
  • The Office, Grace & Frankie) pumps the brakes one too many times to make way for a teachable moment.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 May 2022
  • The loss to Cal provided the Huskies’ receivers with lots of teachable moments.
    — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The result isn’t just a new set of skills in the robot repertoire, but teachable robots, that can be deployed for new tasks on short turn-around.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • With 21 turnovers, the Wolverines had plenty of teachable moments.
    — Paul Nasr, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
  • According to Kent, the tragedy-turned-rescue is a teachable moment for parents.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2021

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