Sentence examples for passable defense from inspiring English sources
It appeared that New York would have one of the league's elite offenses, with a passable defense.
Pitt, on the other hand, is 0-3 in the Big East but they can pass (35th in the nation) and have a passable defense (39th).
When even the state's top official in charge of implementing the law couldn't muster up a passable defense of its details, it seemed as if it would have to be struck down.
The offense is cratering and the defense is barely passable.
The defense did a passable job and goaltender Chris Osgood defused a scoring opportunity by stick-handling through a crowd of Senators to clear the puck.
Subsequently, however, he improved defensively to become "passable".
And the House Armed Services Committee HASCC) is the first body in Congress to craft the annual defense bill into what will become passable legislation.
In other words, passable roads, clean water, research grants and our national defense are not free.
There was an argument posed to me recently by a transgender woman, in defense of these depictions of passing trans men and women; her thinking was that passable trans women, for instance, are more palatable to the sensitivities of the general (cisgender) public.
