Sentence examples for passable as from inspiring English sources

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.

Was it passable as a show?

A coarsely clever rapper, she's barely passable as a singer.

There's so many people that are just barely passable as talk-show hosts.

Even the kitsch version by Eric Winstone and his Orchestra sounded passable, as did the dance single by the disco group Mankind, and Keff McCulloch's new-age, Latin beat.

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.

The old route to Port-au-Prince, when passable, might take as long as fifteen hours.

(Many manageable middle-range changes, from ammunition control to "smarter" and more secure guns, have been suggested as passable paths to gun sanity).

Garlicky spinach was sprinkled with pine nuts as an accent for a passable piece of tuna as well as the salmon; the lamb chops as an entrée were served with a chopped Greek salad, and the menu promises that a strip steak will arrive with a portobello mushroom and jumbo onion rings.

Ms. Scott Thomas singled out Jodie Foster, who studied at the Lycée Français in Los Angeles as a child and speaks near-flawless French and more than passable Italian, as someone with the skills to take the leap.

The men driving us described passable roads as "clean".