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How to use sociable in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective, noun

Sociable means tending to socialize or be social. Example: “He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.”

Examples of sociable by meaning

adjectiveTending to socialize or be social.

  • He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.

adjectiveOffering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.

  • a sociable party

nounAn informal party or church meeting for purposes of socializing.

  • At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, page 46

More sentences with sociable

  • The benefits of being sociable are that people often overlook the importance of being around people.2014, Virginia King, Seek and Ye Shall Find It's a Testimony. From the entry antisociable
  • Salads are chatty, sociable, so togetherish at a lamplit table, everyone (or two) taking helpings.2002, Stephen Sandy, Surface Impressions. From the entry togetherish
  • Boodies are sociable animals and since they dig burrows, considerable warrens can be formed.1968, Vincent Serventy, Wildlife of Australia, page 34. From the entry boodie
  • A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world.1955, John A. Saylor, M.D., Time: The Offended Bulldog, page 8. From the entry mule-stubborn
  • Mebbe the Don wants to pay a sociable call on our ladies.1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars. From the entry mebbe
  • When there were Australian officers everyone was more pally and sociable which made it easier for the lady in charge to entertain the party.2010, Donald Munro, Diaries of a Stretcher-Bearer 1916-1918, page 100. From the entry pally
  • "Anything interesting among your letters, Geoffrey?" asked Miss Tilehurst, concealing a protective curiosity under this sociable wile, since she had already inspected the covers.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry wile
  • It'll be more sociable," the masseuse suggested, lifting her bag to the table and covering its shiny onyx surface with bottles and polishers.1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country. From the entry consentingly
  • Drinking must be sociable, and if it escalates to a certain degree of liveliness, then it promotes the arousal of the mind and makes it sociable.2012, Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood, Robert B. Louden, Lectures on Anthropology, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry openhearted
  • Happiness at seeing her mother, Tegan's friendly company, the sociable grownupness of it all had relegated Moses's story almost to the distant domain of night terrors and childish imaginings.2011, Alex Jones, Cedar Flat, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry grownupness

Meaning of sociable

  1. adjective Tending to socialize or be social.
  2. adjective Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
  3. adjective Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.

Full definition of sociable

Questions about sociable in a sentence

How do you use sociable in a sentence?
Sociable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.”
What is a short sentence with sociable?
“a sociable party”
What does sociable mean?
Sociable means tending to socialize or be social.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sociable (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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