How To Use Presentable In A Sentence
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We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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Overall, the ‘strong emotions’ seek out what cannot be put into propositions, or even words: everything that is mysterious and unpresentable.
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presentable clothes
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It is a feature of the human mind to be able to represent events that will take place in the future, but death itself is not representable.
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It needs to be a good size as I like to carry a lot of stuff around, but still look presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're going to have to do a lot more work on this essay before it's presentable.
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It was neat, paved and, if not prosperous, at least presentable.
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One small drawback is the last-minute rush to make the house presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore he was perfectly presentable.
Wives and Daughters
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She managed to make herself presentable in time for work.
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And those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow greater honour; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty’.
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I have recently obtained secondhand copies of the books in question and they turn out to be very presentable indeed.
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They might have gone in to the interval three or four down, having presented their guests with a host of presentable chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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uniquely representable in the form...
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Finally, some observers report, bull terriers were commissioned to smooth out remnants of the otter hound cross that were considered unpresentable after the Airedale had entered the show ring in the 1860s.
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His score of 29 had helped Leicestershire reach a presentable total.
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My son wore black shoes, not his trainers, and a black shirt, but this was not presentable enough, apparently.
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I planned to inquire with the doctor after if she experienced any unnoted head trauma, or if I could begin grooming her and making her look presentable for when she was allowed visitors.
Empty is the House of Death
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With an enormous dollop of assistance, I've transformed my own scatterbrained attempt at a curriculum vitae into something a little more presentable.
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He writes of ‘simulacrum’ as the ‘of something that is incommunicable in itself or unrepresentable: literally the phantasm in its obsessional constraint.’
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This is all the more ironic considering the months of rigorous structuring, arranging and rehearsing that such tuneage must go under before being anywhere near presentable.
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One small drawback is the last-minute rush to make the house presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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You got it - I apologize to my classmates for the fact that I will soon be arriving to class every day sweaty, parched, exhausted and far too unpresentable to allow you to enjoy your learning environment in any capacity.
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To be a senior manager, a CEO or any high-powered corporate executive you need to be smart, sharp, presentable and have reasonable charisma.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard famously defined postmodernism in terms of the sublime and posited it as presenting what is unpresentable, excessive, regardless of order and perfection.
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I must go and make myself presentable before the guests arrive.
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In our Pestchanka, I remember, pike used to be caught a yard long, and there were eel-pouts, and roach, and bream, and every fish had a presentable appearance; while nowadays, if you catch a wretched little pikelet or perch six inches long you have to be thankful.
The Witch, and other stories
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Ordinary kids, the type most of us have cluttering up our living rooms, are just not genetically programmed to be presentable.
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Extracts posted today, seen in advance by the Guardian, reveal her worrying over forgetting to eat while campaigning and struggling to concoct meals for her children, and having to buy suits to look presentable.
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You have to look presentable, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've got nothing presentable to wear.
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(2) Livvy could believe it or not, but the truth was that any reasonably presentable OP was more apt to be fox than hound.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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In the dock she said of vanity: 'I often do not look presentable.
The Sun
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For now, I need to make myself presentable and get ready to watch the England vs. Denmark football match.
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One small drawback is the last-minute rush to make the house presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tout ca pour dire que j'ai bien mis trois quart d'heure a me bagarrer avec le seche cheveux, la brosse et une autre brosse, celle a brushing pour pouvoir avoir une coiffe a peu pres presentable.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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He's got dozens of suits but not one of them is presentable.
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Jeremy was looking quite presentable in a suit and tie.
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The far future of our universe is therefore representable by de Sitter space-time, and in this type of space-time the future timelike boundary is a spacelike hypersurface.
Archive 2009-05-01
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These images were perpetuating certain ideas about what is and is not representable in our culture.
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In fact, making people look and sound presentable is big business these days.
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In the morning, feeling dreadfully crapulous, she managed to make herself presentable in time for work.
SORT OF RICH
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The guy himself, all smoky and tallow-smeared and unpresentable, is bad enough; far worse, from the point of view of proliferating chaos, is his stuff.
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The door opened a second later and Morgan shuffled out, looking rumpled but presentable.
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Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
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But a motory force of a body in one direction, and an equal force of the same body in an opposite direction is not incompatible, and the result, namely, rest, is real and representable.
Biographia Literaria
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The secret is well kept, doubtless by a kind of freemasonry amongst bearded men, but there can be little doubt that somewhere there are nurseries where a _bonâ-fide_ beard-grower who is in the secret can retire until he is presentable.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919
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Helen watched my grandmother with a peculiar horror, for my grandmother had abandoned all attempts to make herself presentable.
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Motion is unpresentable as such but leaves a conceptual trace, not unlike Lyotard's description of the postmodern: ‘the postmodern would be that which, in the modern, puts forward the unpresentable in presentation itself.’
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Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
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Unfortunately I can't take my dog to parties, so I need to find a nice, presentable, decent sort of man.
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Beyond his perfectly presentable looks, I mean.
Times, Sunday Times
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I only have about two presentable rooms at a time at my house, so I am very limited as to what I can show in interiors, but your house looks like it has a few more appealing areas!
Arranging Living Room Furniture
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Yet, we have never had, nor do we have now, any conclusive proof that the universe is humanly understandable in the first place, much less representable in some reductivist symbology of mathematics or any other language for that matter.
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Despite her addiction, she likes to keep her apartment neat and presentable and says she tries to lead as decent a life as possible.
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La merde de la soiree c que j'avais bien preparé mon appareil photo et avant de partir on a pris une foto shino et moi a la maison quand on etait encore presentable et je l'ai oublié ....
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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But you still have to look reasonably presentable, don't you?
Times, Sunday Times
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She managed to make herself presentable in time for work.
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How can she make her feet presentable on the beach?
Times, Sunday Times
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Rearranging my charms, necklace and bracelet I make sure I look presentable to a street gang.
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Existence is not dialectical, not representable.
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When settling down in a career, one goes for a smoother, presentable look.
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He looked presentable, although he did even when he wore jeans and a ripped t-shirt.
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One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man -- whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect -- the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.
Chapter 25
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You will look presentable when you want to look presentable, and today just isn't one of those days.
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These forms of conjunction are as much parts of the tissue of experience as are the terms which they connect; and it is a great pragmatic achievement for recent idealism to have made the world hang together in these directly representable ways instead of drawing its unity from the 'inherence' of its parts -- whatever that may mean -- in an unimaginable principle behind the scenes.
Pragmatism
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She looks smart and presentable.
The Sun
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At the dacha they were told that Stalin had been put on a sofa in the small dining room ‘in an unpresentable state’ and was now asleep.
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Everyone should look smart and presentable at work.
The Sun
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‘Well, you look presentable,’ she proclaimed with a few final snips at my beard.
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He might not be quite his old self, but at least he looked presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also complimented all who took part and took the time to decorate the floats and make them presentable.
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In either case adequate preparation should be made, so that the relevant facts and estimates are in a presentable state.
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They are pleased to see the heart of their home city looking presentable again.
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In either case adequate preparation should be made, so that the relevant facts and estimates are in a presentable state.
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And Emma kept reminding us to put on makeup and make sure we looked presentable.
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We managed to set up the retaining wall near the back fence and our back yard now looks a lot cleaner and presentable than it was before.
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After I worked out, I showered and dried my hair and fixed my face, and generally returned myself to a reasonably presentable state.
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There is nothing wrong in being presentable and behaving properly where we are required to.
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She managed to make herself presentable in time for work.
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I wouldn't say he's especially handsome, although he's reasonably good looking and presentable.
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I was busy preparing canapés all day in preparation for the launch party, but I found the time to get my hair done, so I looked half presentable.
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In fact, essentially every invariant studied by topologists can be made into a representable or corepresentable functor.
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My daughter is perfectly presentable.
The Sun
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I had the vaguely presentable air crew, they had the old hags nearing retirement.
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We, too, can be entitled, for a fee, to claim kin with eminent or at least socially presentable ancestors; to have a pedigree drawn up and illuminated, on quality paper or indeed (why not?) on parchment, complete with the coat of arms of some long-dead person of the same name: some armigerous Griffin of yesteryear, who may impress our friends and put a snap in our walk and a sneer on our lip as we mingle in a world where, in these democratic times, we have to live on terms of apparent equality with poor fellows who have no ancestors at all.
Anxieties of Influence
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These may be representable on a single vector or on a number of distinct vectors if the person has distinct and incommensurable satisfactions and enjoyments.
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Most local people were in rags, and the Americans learned to mistrust those who looked more presentable.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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I've cleared my calendar at work for the next two weeks, I've ironed a presentable shirt and I'm all aquiver in eager expectation.
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Mother took a week to pack, and unpack, to go panting down-stairs to the corner drug-store for new tubes of tooth-paste and a presentable sponge, to remend all that was remendable, to press Father's flappy, shapeless little trousers with the family flat-iron, to worry over whether she should take the rose-pink or the daffodil-yellow wrapper -- which had both faded to approximately the same shade of gray, but which were to her trusting mind still interestingly different.
The Innocents A Story for Lovers
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When the time arrives for despatching them they are confided to feminine hands to have their dainty toilettes made, and are tastefully labelled and either capsuled, or else have their corks and necks imbedded in sealing-wax, or swathed in gold or silver foil, whereby they are rendered presentable at the best-appointed tables.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
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But the loss of the archives rules out further enquiries, and makes it impossible to estimate how representable was the high level of literacy shown by the laymen who subscribed the private charters in Salerno.
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Indeed this Austrian arch-opponent of the pseudo-sciences would surely have been more sympathetic to Bergson's conception of music as having contact with a verbally unrepresentable interiority.
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I'd have just enough time to get to the hotel, clean up, change into presentable, respectable clothes, and make my way to the bookstore.
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It teaches you discipline as you have to set your alarm, get out of bed, look presentable and get to work on time.
The Sun
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I wouldn't say he's especially handsome, although he's reasonably good looking and presentable.
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Rather than replace the whole worktop (chipboard, woodgrain finish), is there another option to make it presentable?
Times, Sunday Times
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This product provides meaningful advantages over existing aluminum bakeware: It's reusable, presentable, microwavable and dishwasher safe.
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She was seen at the opera with an extremely presentable escort.
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He had scored - one of the least beautiful goals in his collection - but he had also missed a penalty and two extremely presentable chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Officers complained that it was extremely difficult to keep the full dress uniform presentable, since the lace dirtied the white cloth, and the brimstone used to dress the cloth damaged the lace.
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Almost an hour passed before Wendy felt presentable enough to leave the ladies' room.
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His graduation is on Thursday so I have to look perdy and presentable.
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For a start, its façade doesn't need to be heavily trowelled with filler to make it look vaguely presentable.
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By giving the letters a tidy shove, at least the fridge door could look presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her cream silk shirt and white linen slacks had looked perfectly presentable in the mirror in her room.
FINAL RESORT
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She was seen at the opera with an extremely presentable escort.
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Mother seems to think me unpresentable otherwise.
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What could he say, faced with the messy tears and rapidly balding head of his once presentable bride?
Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
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In 1941 he received the degree of Doctor of Science for a dissertation Structure of isomorphic representable infinite algebras and groups.
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After another half an hour of rushing about, the place was looking quite presentable, then right on time, there was a knock on the door.
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They simply go ahead and recruit smartly dressed, presentable presenters.
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Although the cheese had half exploded around the foil, it actually looks presentable when I open it.
The Sun
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His score of 29 had helped Leicestershire reach a presentable total.
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(2) Livvy could believe it or not, but the truth was that any reasonably presentable OP was more apt to be fox than hound.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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What was he going to do with this unpresentable woman?
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Everybody likes to be in clean clothes and to look presentable, including the migrant workers.
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Fiona Pelham was a slim, freckle-skinned Scotswoman and conscious of being not at her most presentable.
RIOT
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In the 21st century men are expected to look presentable.
The Sun
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But Lowell remains a more audacious, more unpresentable maker than even the most sympathetic acolyte can allow.
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Is this really about Taiwan's national security or just something unpresentable?
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He must hide away in the meantime and make himself as presentable as possible.
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A. It is the holy grail of modern menswear - an easy way of dressing that allows you to be comfortable and presentable at the same time.
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She managed to make herself presentable in time for work.
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Here one of her lowly assistants makes her presentable.
The Sun
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I have nothing presentable to wear.
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Helen watched my grandmother with a peculiar horror, for my grandmother had abandoned all attempts to make herself presentable.
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Doing it from scratch basically down to writing the page in that make it look presentable, and links to other pages.
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The race to look halfway presentable for the beach is on!
Times, Sunday Times
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I wish I could go more often without washing or having to make myself presentable.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the time we were finished, the old man's grave looked quite presentable.
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But beneath those presentable pores lurks a shameful secret.
Times, Sunday Times
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Winning is first, but not far behind is winning in a manner that is presentable and palatable to the public.
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To give but the simplest example, Riemann was an enthusiastic follower of Dirichlet's idea that a function has to be conceived as an arbitrary injective correspondence between numerical values, be it representable by a formula or not; this meant leaving behind the times when a function was defined to be an analytic expression.
The Early Development of Set Theory
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She's a presentable young woman.
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She was not exactly good-looking, but perfectly presentable.
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Jeremy was looking quite presentable in a suit and tie.
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They were looking for someone upright, biddable, intelligent, presentable.
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In either case adequate preparation should be made, so that the relevant facts and estimates are in a presentable state.
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In short he really tried hard to make himself presentable, which he knew would help him when he called at houses selling his wares.
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She managed to make herself presentable in time for work.
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Could you try and make yourself a little more presentable?
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So with Jot, their database being a very awesome tree-representable node graph, they have an interface to their database via DAV, meaning you can navigate the database quite transparently through the local file system.
Technology for the future: MacFUSE | FactoryCity
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Having unsightly water spots everywhere, like your glass shower doors, walls, fixtures, and mirrors, can leave your bath looking embarrassingly unpresentable all the time.
