Sentence examples for if believable from inspiring English sources

One night last October, prosecutors say, a client entered Mr. Abraham's 12th-floor Midtown office and handed him $30,000 in hundred dollar bills, an odd, if believable transaction in the world of international gem dealers.

In her book "Abducted," due in October, Dr. Clancy, a psychologist at Harvard, manages to refute and defend these believers, and along the way provide a discussion of current research into memory, emotion and culture that renders abduction stories understandable, if not believable.

So once I found the center of gravity in the suit and didn't knock things over, then I had the physicality of it". To see if she looked believable, Gardner asked Paltrow if she would go down the restaurant in the lobby and order a drink.

Then put yourself in your partner's position and see if the lie is believable or if it can be picked apart.

Most importantly, when school ends, act as sad as you possibly can, try to fake cry if you can, because it will be more believable if you start "crying".

Ten-year-old narrators are always hard to do well: if they are good at writing novels, they are unbelievable, and if they are believable, they are not good at writing novels.

If not entirely believable.

"But I don't know if it was believable".

And for most of the novel, a solid narrative grounds the believable, if occasionally awkward, dialogue.

Brauchli thinks The Post is more believable if it is seen as impartial.

That explanation would be more believable if Mr. Bush had actually been putting poor children first.