How To Use Passably In A Sentence
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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This despite the fact that he has been nothing but unsurpassably eloquent and consistent in his views and his opposition to the White House.
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Pollution combined with sound gives one an unsurpassably compressed expression for ‘noise pollution.’
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However even a passably careful reading of the thing reveals that it fails to provide significant evidence that Clark supported the war.
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The kitchen made a passably good job of smoked haddock eggs Benedict.
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I didn't want to go to the ball at all, but as Mother insisted I did attend, I would at least look passably pretty.
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You’ll see the full array of Predator weaponry used to passably good effect, and for those who’ve played the wonderful and deeply underappreciated Aliens vs Predator 2 game, you’ll likely be wanting to dig up a copy and reimmerse yourself in that classic title.
Aliens vs Predator Requiem
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Funnel plot was symmetrical in general, and it prompted that publication bias for the literatures was controlled passably.
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In that regard, the Christmas drives do passably well for the month of December and, if the people and organizations marshal their resources well, into January.
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If they can't, it's usually fairly easy to teach them to do so passably.
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Any number of terms have already been coined to describe postindustrial labor, and the authors' own elaborations on the phenomenon are passably interesting.
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She'll use that deformed arm to play the piano passably well and to complete elaborate needlework projects.
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Such an approach had worked quite well in Europe and at least passably well in East Asia and Latin America.
Between War and Peace
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To these raddled, commitment-starved women, a certain Mr D Miliband resembles the archangel Gabriel; even David Cameron looks passably sweet.
Why Ed reminds women of every bad ex-boyfriend
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Philip Glass was probably the last one whose name would be passably well known to the public at large, and even Mr. Glass isn't nearly as famous as, say, Aaron Copland.
The Best Composer You've Never Heard Of
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The beach and the last of the passably cold ocean waters beckon.
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While the film won't win an Oscar, as the previous adaptation did way back in 1956, the film passably succeeds as a family/kids movie.
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There were one or two passably funny jokes but it was mostly dull.
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It's all passably jolly, but the show, with book and lyrics by Peter Sham and music by Brad Carroll, misses a trick in not doing more to satirise operatic conventions.
Lend Me A Tenor, The Musical - review
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Every rating learned to cook by cooking for his shipmates, and therefore, if he were to keep the friendly esteem of his mess, he would need to learn to make the best of his often unpromising ingredients, to cook passably well.
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I sang them the old hunting-song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think.
The Armourer's Prentices
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When they were done spraying her, though, even she looked passably attractive.
Shore Thing
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She's just a passably pretty girl from Llanelli with a bit of a tip about herself.
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This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
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She was passably pretty, with large green eyes and flowing golden curls.
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A wide range of grape varieties is grown at least passably well, which has distracted from the question of what the district does best.
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Well having no money, I wear anything that I have a free sample of (as long as it's passably nice).
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Half an hour later the laundry was passably clean and Anna had ended up even more scungy than before.
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Standing there was a young man a few years older than me, passably good-looking but with a slightly weedy air about him.
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This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
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The argument speaks, therefore, of an unsurpassably great being - of a being whose greatness is not excelled by any being in any world.
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Maybe she'll go to college one day; she has always been quick to pick things up, doing passably well in school without half trying.
HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
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I submitted the piece: I thought it passably written, and the subject is important.
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An NSF panel recommended that internet voting begin only slowly, starting with dedicated kiosks which could be made passably secure with currently existing technology.
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The present status for the principal leadership, features of organizational development and school effectiveness display is passably . There is still space for further achievement.
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But it was still interesting, nonetheless - to hear their elementary analysis made to sound slightly profound and passably deep.
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Forget the music, passably good, though, it is.
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I sang them the old hunting - song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think.
The Armourer's Prentices
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There were one or two passably funny jokes but it was mostly dull.
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Its fruits are unsurpassably pre-eminent, so mighty and so manifold that there is not room enough to receive them.
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Neither working class nor gentry, the family was passably well to do, passably well educated, and, I suppose, somewhere in the lower middle of middle class.
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The program is led by an unsurpassably talented group of science advisors, whose jobs are much more complex than the program's simple elements might imply.
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In my play world, the drinks were fresh and free-flowing, the rumaki were hot, and the swingers were all passably attractive.
I know i am, but what are you?
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It would be better if I had the actual materials to work from, of course, but the local medical examiner is passably competent, and the images are detailed.
Things fall apart. it's the nature of things.
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She'll use that deformed arm to play the piano passably well and to complete elaborate needlework projects.
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Even if this were a passably good idea, the score would have sunk the show, for the songs are period pastiches so anonymous as to actively resist recollection.
Don't Let its Name Be a Curse
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It was then that Mr. Sheeny detailed to me the particulars to which I have briefly adverted; and, informing me at the same time that he had a family in England who would feel obliged to me for his release, and that his most intimate friend the English ambassador would move heaven and earth to revenge his fall, he directed my attention to a portmanteau passably well filled, which he hoped would satisfy the cupidity of my troops.
Burlesques
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But what I find most surprising is that I think they've all been passably good.
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She has always been quick to pick things up, doing passably well in school without really trying.
