Sentence examples for there was able from inspiring English sources

I approached a local LGBT-friendly football team and from there, was able to meet like-minded individuals with whom I shared similar interests.

Albert III especially favoured the city of Vienna as his capital, and it was because of his reorganization that the university Rudolf IV had founded there was able to survive.

(Fynes Moryson, a Scotsman who went to Constantinople in 1597, was distressed to find that the giraffe in the palace menagerie there was able to plant "familiar kisses" on him from great range).

A student opened fire at an Atlanta middle school on Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working there was able to wrest the gun away, the police said.

Australia, land of kangaroos and terrible actors, must be beaming today, what with the news that someone there was able to overclock an Intel Atom processor to 2.38GHz.

The gunman there was able to purchase a firearm at one of Stack's stores, though he didn't use it in the massacre.

Doctors who wished to live there were able to buy lots cheaply and build houses with government-subsidized mortgages.

Svalbard, Norway Liverpool, England The north-west was partly hit by the cloud, but some there were able to sneak a picture of the eclipse as it happened.

The island is off limits to the public, though family members who can prove their relatives are buried there are able to arrange visits.

And the workers there were able to send money home to their families in the countryside, making an unimaginable difference to their welfare.

"But on the other hand, right now I feel like I don't want to miss a minute off, being out there, being able to compete".