Sentence example with the word 'tenable'

tenable

acceptable, alright, conceivable, defendable, good enough, maintainable, possible, secure, unexceptionable, viable, worthy of faith

Definition adj. based on sound reasoning or evidence

Last update: July 1, 2015


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His statement is tenable.   [adjective]

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As little did the territory of the Italian confederacy present any tenable basis.   [adjective]

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MRC Research Fellowships: Tenable for three years, they are for those recently postdoctoral.   [adjective]

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If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable.   [adjective]

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- Under the name of Aristotle, three treatises on the good of man have come down to us, Mica Nuco i tkaa (irpos NLKOµaXov, Porphyry), Howe, Eub ipta (7r Os Eiibjµov, Porphyry), and 'HBLKa µeyaXa; so like one another that there seems no tenable hypothesis except that they are the manuscript writings of one man.   [Please select]

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The position would have ceased to be tenable and the intruder would have perished.   [Please select]

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Their difficulties are different, but neither seems tenable all through.   [Please select]

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Like all sceptical hypotheses, it is logically tenable, but uninteresting.   [Please select]

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He was advised to destroy New York and retire to positions more tenable.   [Please select]

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This doctrine is very complicated and is scarcely tenable as a contribution to pure theory.   [Please select]

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The only tenable supposition is, that mental and physical proceed together, as undivided twins.   [Please select]

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