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420 example sentences for ABLE, such as:

1. I shall be able to go tomorrow.
2. She didn't seem able to get out a word.
3. I have some information you may be able to use.
4. I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident.
5. I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABLE
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able
 a.  having necessary power, skill, resources
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  She didn't seem able to get out a word.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  The rescuing party were speedily able to convince the two castaways that their appearance was no delusion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  All this Jefferson Hope was able to tell him, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her father.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5  During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep his riding-whip from the backs of his two visitors.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6  Beyond his post the path broadened out, and the horses were able to break into a trot.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
7  After a time they were able to relax these measures, for nothing was either heard or seen of their opponent, and they hoped that time had cooled his vindictiveness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9  In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
10  There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
12  How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
13  Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
14  And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
15  I could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The firm will be able to undercut its competitors whilst still making a profit.
17  I was able to gain invaluable experience over that year.
18  We were not able to meet the deadline because of manufacturing delays.
19  We won't be able to tell what skills the man has until we try him out.
20  I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident.
21  I shall be able to go tomorrow.
22  Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
23  Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent.
24  I found it immensely rewarding working with the less able children.
25  I have been an asthmatic from childhood and was never able to play any sports.
26  Travel and see the world; afterwards, you will be able to put your concerns in perspective.
27  He told them he was old and feeble and was not able to walk so far.
28  With a lot of training, we might be able to lick the team into shape in time for next year's games.
29  She couldn't stand the frustration of not being able to help.
30  I have some information you may be able to use.