How to Use tenable in a Sentence

tenable

adjective
  • Even so, their choice may not be tenable for much longer.
    — Allison Schrager, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
  • How tenable will an all-righty bench be over the medium to long term?
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • There is no tenable middle ground here.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The finds clearly show that this single-file scheme is no longer tenable.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Eighty-five shows and hundreds of days on the road weren’t tenable anymore.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 2 June 2022
  • That’s not tenable, even in the places where that’s currently our world.
    — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The play of Jake Browning was no longer tenable.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This kind of timeline is not tenable when urgent change is needed.
    — Sumant Sinha, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This isn’t tenable in the long run, and the cracks are already beginning to show.
    — Babu Sivadasan, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • But as the embers of war glow in the region, this gambit becomes less and less tenable.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The time may be approaching when that clever maneuver is no longer tenable.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The status quo is not tenable — and survival will not be granted to those who simply wait it out.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • But that is no longer tenable, and Swinney seems to recognize that.
    — Grace Raynor, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Yet it's always faced the question of whether its business model was tenable.
    — Jon Swartz, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Tenable expects to hire 100 people in Dublin over the next two years.
    — The Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2017
  • This ought not to be tenable in the leader of a democratic republic.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Over the years, the rules loosened, and the number of deaths seen as tenable rose drastically.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • In such a scenario, the prospect of Biden running for re-election could become less tenable.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 26 Oct. 2022
  • In short, Elon Musk’s worst nightmare may be more tenable than anyone imagined.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 8 June 2018
  • And all this criticism without any sense of whether the ceasefire was really meant to be tenable for long.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Playing 12-13 is not going to be tenable, and Smith knows it.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
  • But the city and the teachers’ union say that the board’s rulings meant that the 2008 deal was no longer tenable.
    — Kate Taylor, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • But having said that, there is also a tenable argument against the team handing him a handsome pay raise.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Moscow is now a pariah, and business as usual with Beijing is no longer tenable.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But thanks to a change in statutes, equity crowdfunding has become a tenable way to procure funds for a startup.
    — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2021
  • Occupants find plenty of legroom and knee clearance, and the flat floor makes the middle position tenable.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But then Sanders signed with the Braves, enabling him to play for two teams in the same city, which made the double duty more tenable.
    — Ben Baskin, The MMQB, 14 July 2017
  • When the lies were no longer tenable, the Chinese government pivoted.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 27 Mar. 2020
  • That position may not be tenable after Friday.
    — Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025
  • If there were a handful of cheap prospects ready to come up and help bolster a winner, that payroll might be tenable for new owners wanting to take a stand.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 May 2017

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