The phrase "a sensible answer to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a logical or reasonable response to a question or situation.
Example: "After much discussion, we finally arrived at a sensible answer to the problem we were facing."
Alternatives: "a reasonable response to" or "a rational reply to".
Because data are dumb, web search-engines often fail to find a sensible answer to queries a page containing the word "Apollo" might be about mythology or about moon landings.
In Northamptonshire, 93% of people who were arrested for cannabis possession in 1997 received a caution compared to just over a third in Dorset for the same offence.Decriminalisation by postcode is not a sensible answer to the drugs problem.
That's a good question — one of many I couldn't get a sensible answer to in the three weeks I spent in Afghanistan reporting for my magazine on the projects.
The British government pays for much of the society's work, and its leaders join the robust debates of the day, on matters like global warming and genetically modified crops, which they view as a sensible answer to global scarcity.
At last Labour has come back with a sensible answer to the Tory claim that the planned rise in national insurance contributions (NICs) can be avoided through efficiency savings.
"To be honest it's difficult to give a sensible answer to such a strange comment," he said.
Strange, perhaps; or maybe the only sensible answer to a would-be bohemian Paris, fixed like a dead butterfly to the glories of its own past.
The Super Bowl halftime show is the traditional (although not, perhaps, sensible) answer to a tricky question: How do you keep well-lubricated viewers in front of their televisions while the teams regroup in their locker rooms?
Plenty changed between 1955 and 1975, and Mr. Rambo gives us ample opportunity to admire Ms. Lederer and her sensible answer to a teenager agonizing about his homosexuality, her staunch opposition to the Vietnam war, her campaign to win government support for cancer research and her evolving attitudes toward premarital sex, abortion rights and feminism.
It seems to be the only sensible answer to speculation about the future of a post-travel ban Cuba.
When a husband is asked by his wife whether a certain outfit flatters her figure, or not, there really is only one sensible answer to give, regardless of the actualité.
