PERMISSIBLE in a Sentence

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For PERMISSIBLE, below is one of 141 sentences:
To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERMISSIBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
permissible
 a.  permitted; allowable; admissible.
Classic Sentence: (113 in 8 pages)
1  It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
2  It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
3  To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
4  Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  "That's your opinion," said Scarlett rudely, wishing it were permissible to smack old ladies' jaws.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  Her imagination indeed overstepped the limits of what is reckoned permissible by conventional morality; but even then her blood flowed as quietly as ever in her fascinatingly graceful, tranquil body.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  'Once in a way it's surely permissible,' murmured the old man.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  "No, there was an Englishman who did suckle his baby on board ship," said the old prince, feeling this freedom in conversation permissible before his own daughters.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
9  Yes," said Holmes; "I think that both inferences are permissible.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
10  When you have apprehended that basket as one thing and have then analysed it according to its form and apprehended it as a thing you make the only synthesis which is logically and esthetically permissible.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  Candide immediately sent to ask the Lord Pococurante permission to wait upon him the next day.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
12  She made haste to send her daughters to bed, then she asked the man's permission to send Cosette off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal air.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  It is unnecessary to say that permission is always refused to men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
14  Their very mothers did not obtain permission to embrace them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
15  When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Ah, no, a certain latitude is permissible in these matters, you understand.
2  Many people think that the former is permissible but the latter is not.
3  We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
4  You must ask permission if you want to leave early.
5  You must ask permission before taking any photographs inside the church.
6  I was granted permission to visit the palace.
7  The council have granted him permission to build on the site.
8  They were refused planning permission for a modern extension because it was a Grade II listed building.
9  The jet entered Chinese airspace without permission.
10  Data about patients is only released with their permission.
11  Staff may not leave early without the express permission of the director.
12  The information was published with the full permission of Amnesty International.
13  He got permission from his commanding officer to join me.
14  All illustrations are reproduced by kind permission of the Mercury Gallery.
15  He asked permission to leave the room.