Sentence examples for passable alternative from inspiring English sources

"Accepted" will make for a passable alternative to sold-out shows of "Snakes on a Plane," but it's a disappointing debut for the director Steve Pink.

Cow's milk is a poor substitute for hedgehog milk, but goat's milk is a passable alternative.

Androids or iPhones make good music players, and personalized radio apps like Slacker, Pandora and Last.fm offer passable alternatives to conventional radio, especially if you pay for advertising-free versions of the services.

What's clear, though, is that the word "traditional" is derogatory, signifying derivative, clichéd thinking (Parks makes reference to "passable imitations" of nineteenth-century novels), while its alternative promises freshness, liberation, "a way forward in words".

Certainly passable.

Both were passable.

Greek salads are passable.

That figure is passable.

Rice pudding was passable.

All passable slogans.

--into passable grades.