Sentence examples for were as sensible from inspiring English sources

I wish the candidates would answer the questions, and would be reassured if their answers were as sensible as yours.

The idea is as sensible as it's novel.

Now he was as sensible as any Englishman.

Sonia Gandhi's decision yesterday to pass up her chance to become India's next prime minister was as sensible as it was unexpected.

Their products reached Lycett's extremes of eclectic gilt but could also be as sensible as sink faucets, doorknobs and water filters.

The combination of crisp, hot, spicy sausage and cold, creamy oysters may have been unpredictable, but it was as sensible as waffles and ice cream.

The scene was as sensible as the process surrounding the Coalition's May 2015 decision to increase the tax on working holidaymakers from zero to 32.5%.

Comments on a community website voiced anonymous criticisms – contributors said the plan was "as sensible as a chocolate teapot" and more in keeping with Blackpool than Hastings.

The implied suggestion that we return to hospital-based nursing education as a way of relieving shortages is as sensible as proposing that we rely on unpaid medical students to cut hospital costs.

To suggest we acquiesce to such prejudice and prohibit gay parenting is as sensible as to suggest the best way to change a light bulb is by rotating the ceiling.

• To the Editor: Allowing offshore drilling for gas as a solution to high fuel costs, as President Bush urges Congress to do, is as sensible as growing more food in response to rising levels of obesity or robbing a bank in response to overspending one's budget.