How to use admirable in a sentence

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• Although severely provoked, she showed admirable restraint in not retaliating.From the entry in
• His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish.From the entry resolution
• He was an old man, I guess over sixty-six, and an admirable algebrician.2015, Ruth Scurr -, John Aubrey: My Own Life, page 282. From the entry algebrician
• This song explains that the fine climate of Zhouzhi produced admirable figures like Lanqing and Zhang Fu'ao.2010, Tian Yuan Tan, Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North…. From the entry Zhouzhi
• The column, as the admirable Margery points out, is in no position to cast the first clemmy.2001 May 23, John Biggs, “Losing faith, hope and charity”, in Northern Echo. From the entry clemmy
• An hour and a half of now-revelrous, now-subdued celebration hummed along with admirable energy.1984, Jim Moorhead, "‘Superstar’ Company Acquits Itself Well," St. Petersburg Independent, 7 Feb., p. 6B (retrieved 21 Sep. 2009). From the entry revelrous
• Jews will continue to exist, but physical existence alone is hardly an admirable state of being.1967, Benjamin Kaplan, “How the Mighty Have Fallen”, in The Jew and His Family, Baton Rouge, Fla.: Louisiana State University Press…. From the entry oblivium
• Their theory was admirable but their performance hastened the day of dieseldom.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.. From the entry dieseldom
• Dargan has "checked and verified with admirable patience every item of Francian lore," Mr.1945, Marjorie Rickard McEwen, Anatole France in the United States. From the entry Francian
• Among the things shown at the Weyhe Galleries are some admirable pencil drawings by Mrs.1927 November 27, E. A. J., “Mr. and Mrs. Jan Gordon Show ‘Vagabonding’ Work”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry poppy oil
• In point of fact it reached 86 per cent, an admirable figure for induction motor drives.1919 June 24, “From the Old to the New”, in Electrical World, volume 73, number 24, New York, New York, page 1254. From the entry heavy duty
• Mill's attempt to answer this pseudometaphysical question is so admirable that it almost raises pseudometaphysics to the rank of a science.2016, R. G. Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics, →ISBN. From the entry pseudometaphysical
• Instead, "mystère admirable," it invites hours of fruitless headscratching.2011, Richard [T.] Neer, “Poussin’s Useless Treasures”, in Herbert L[eon] Kessler, David Nirenberg, editors, Judaism and Christian Art…. From the entry head-scratching
• I've heard stories and they don't exactly make your roots admirable.We'ren't you sent here? from France? as undesirables?1998 June 10, Eric, “Re- Quebec Independence”, in qc.politique (Usenet), retrieved 13 Jun 2022. From the entry we'ren't
• Rosenbaum does an admirable job of characterizing the philosophy behind the Usonian and its particular place in time.1994, Edward Russo, Illinois historical journal, Illinois State Historical Society, page 333. From the entry usonian
• I have observed this admirable program in Canton.1974, J. Roby Kidd, Whilst Time is Burning, International Development Research Centre, page 51. From the entry canton
• "Which is quite admirable," he ended lamely.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 436. From the entry lamely
• A cabbagehead is admirable, but after all is said It' s nothing really very much except a cabbagehead.1931, Katharine Kinard Doughtie, Groceries & Notions. From the entry cabbagehead
• The same goods supplied by Germans were packed with such admirable care that they reached their destination quite safely.1909 June, “Character Sketch. Sir Robert Stout; or, 'Tis Forty-Six Years Since.”, in W. T. Stead, editor, The Review of Reviews, volume…. From the entry slovenly
• This show also begins with an admirable upfrontness about the little compromises that mean the experience is not quite as prehistoric as all that.2015 February 3, Tim Dowling, “10,000 BC review: 'It might make you wish you lived in a time before television'”, in The Guardian, London…. From the entry upfrontness
• A broad and inclusive Zhongguo will need to go further to establish a civilization that its people all agree will be modern and admirable.2013, Wang Gungwu, “Modernity, the State and Civilization”, in Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History, Sha Tin, N.T.: The…. From the entry Zhongguo
• Thousands of Jerusalemites gathered on the battl4ements to gawp at this show, admiring 'the beauty of their armour and admirable order of the men.'2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem. From the entry Jerusalemite
• Private operators, for the most part have done an admirable job of keeping these aging aircraft flying, but FAA has essentially said, “It’s public-use aircraft.2004 May 13, James B. Hull, Oversight Hearing on Firefighting Preparedness. From the entry on one's own
• SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . .1983, John S. McCann, The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams, page 171. From the entry unalive
• In his admirable monograph, Leonard J.1971, The Western Humanities Review. From the entry orderite
• Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 137. From the entry cleanliness
• Coffey does not tell us whether he accomplished this admirable stabilization of his avoirdupois by exercising, by calorizing, or by reading James Joyce.1928, Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Richard Salter Storrs, The Independent - Volume 120, page 135. From the entry calorize
• Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria. From the entry correctitude
• They are most takingly illustrated, and each of them in itself illustrates, as all Chinese writing is intended to do, some admirable moral quality.1910, New-York Observer, volume 89, page 246. From the entry takingly
• All of Paris knew this mansion for its splendid entertainments, and above all, its admirable collection of paintings which no grand-duke on his travels would fail to visit.2014, Émile Zola, Money, →ISBN. From the entry grand-duke
• Tactically smart, Leeds' work-rate was also admirable, their players often doubling up on Everton's main threats like Marouane Fellaini, while Victor Anichibe found he had unwelcome, unstinting company throughout.2012 September 23, Ben Smith, “Leeds United 2-1 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025. From the entry double up
• In modulating his voice, that is, Canin has chosen a character whose temperance might be admirable among the living but is less engaging when encountered in literature.2008 June 28, Art Winslow, “Ethan Canin's "America, America"”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 21 May 2009. From the entry wear on one's sleeve
• There was no vigor, no activity of the will anywhere in the great, amorphous hallful of humanity; everything truly admirable seemed gone, scamped, ignored, in her talk.1938, Dorothea Brande, My Invincible Aunt, page 239. From the entry hallful
• The Palladian window of the end wall is a masterpiece, however, in its admirable proportions, its relationship to the wall and the restrained decorative quality of the details.1935, David M[etheny] Robb, J[ames] J. Garrison, “American Architecture from Its Origins to 1870”, in Art in the Western World, New York…. From the entry palladian
• Old or young, I felt sure she could never at any time have holden a candle to that admirable lady, Alice Claiborne, now in some despite for her sake.1901, William Henry Babcock, The Tower of Wye: A Romance, page 156. From the entry hold a candle
• Stephen believed (as I do) that the radical nationalist tradition contains much that is admirable — and that it has been our dominant nationalist ideology, alone unconfused by British loyalties.1987, Labour History (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History), issues 52–55, page 84. From the entry égalitarianism

Meaning of admirable

1. adjective Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; estimable.
2. adjective Good or heroic.
3. noun The quality, state, or an example of being admirable.

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Questions about admirable in a sentence

How do you use admirable in a sentence?

Admirable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “It's admirable that Shelley overcame her handicap and excelled in her work.”

What is a short sentence with admirable?

“In his admirable monograph, Leonard J.”

What does admirable mean?

Admirable means deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; estimable.