Sentence examples for be passable as from inspiring English sources

I suppose one could argue that it's a privilege to be passable as white, or a variant thereof, but it's a bit more complicated than that.

The dress not only had to be believable as Claire's modern day dress, but also needed to be passable as a "shift" of undergarment that a woman would've worn in the period of time to which she travels.

Both those meats and a few others — particularly chicken cooked under a brick and seared hanger steak — are passable as entrees (all $13 to $16), each paired with two sides from the dozen or so on offer every day.

Being a mother was acceptable if it wasn't one's raison d'être – as a side mention it was passable, as a passion it indicated only a lack of capacity and imagination.

While Seth is passable as an arrogant snarky young student, the preening, permanently oiled Khan flabbergasts throughout as he flaunts and flexes his mammoth musculature, his vanity made perplexing by the fact that his snub-nosed face looks like it had been battered with a rock at birth.

My Spanish was passable at best.

The dessert menu is expansive: pudding San Cristóbal (eggs, fruit, milk and almonds) is excellent while the fruit tart and rice puddings are pretty passable, as well as the omnipresent flan.

The road, while not good, was passable with the right vehicle as far as the border, and the border crossing itself was often unmanned.

"The road, as far as we know, is passable -- but they are only letting people out -- not in," it said.

That speech was passable for him, but not as powerfully inspirational as the one given on his behalf the previous evening by former President Bill Clinton.

The lyrics (by Jacques Levy) and the music (by Steve Margoshes) are passable, but José Fernandez's book is as lacking in nutrients as a chocolate box full of dust.