IDENTIFIABLE in a Sentence

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was approached by a security guard, identifiable mainly by his sword, of which the scabbard seemed to be made of aluminium.

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 Meanings and Examples of IDENTIFIABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
identifiable
 a.  traceable; possible to identify
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  was approached by a security guard, identifiable mainly by his sword, of which the scabbard seemed to be made of aluminium.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
2  The question was how to identify an unknown prisoner.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  As it dashed on, Oliver caught a glimpse of a man in a white nightcap, whose face seemed familiar to him, although his view was so brief that he could not identify the person.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
5  There are scholastic agencies by which one may identify any man who has been in the profession.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
6  The most practical way of getting at it, in my opinion, is to identify the dead man.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7  It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
8  We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
9  That there were, still living, people enough who were able and willing to identify him, I could not doubt.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
10  Mr. Dick looked hard at me, as if to identify me in this character.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
11  To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, with its old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently to identify themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  She did not know the man but could identify him.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
13  There needed only a glance from the child to her, to identify her as its mother.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  All of them were carelessly dressed although the expressions on their faces, their bearing, the style of their beards and many details which were hard to identify showed that they belonged to the upper classes.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
15  Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
16  The new test will enable us to identify more accurately patients who are most at risk.
17  Many of those arrested refused to identify themselves.
18  He refused point-blank to identify his accomplices.
19  First we need to identify actual and potential problems.
20  Even the smallest baby can identify its mother by her voice.
21  They are trying to identify what is wrong with the present system.
22  It's easy to identify his script.
23  The candidates all want to identify themselves with reform.
24  It's hard to identify the real villain of the piece in this case.
25  She was the only witness to identify Peters as the attacker.
26  Sales departments try to identify a product's USP or 'unique selling point'.
27  He found no direct evidence to identify a leaker.
28  Their job was to identify enemy collaborators.
29  I don't need to see a label to identify the provenance of a garment that someone is wearing.
30  He was too far away to be able to identify faces.