Sentence Examples

1. However, for the rest of the trip we alternated among bouncing along the old pot-holed road, cruising on the dirt shoulder, which had been widened to take cars around the construction, or creeping through a long detour on an acceptable, but slow, road through rural towns.
2. From the moment they met, everything that was true, right, and acceptable seemed to be thrown out the window.
3. With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.
4. She knew the limitations of her own powers too well to attempt more than she could perform with credit she wanted neither taste nor spirit in the little things which are generally acceptable, and could accompany her own voice well.
5. Being so divergent made Tanya feel uncomfortable, and she sought frequent reassurance that the choices she was making were acceptable.
6. Exposure as something other than the acceptable classes was a fear I carried every day.
7. Historically in the United States, anyone with any African ancestors was referred to as colored, Negro, black, or African-American with all of these terms being synonymous but acceptable in different eras.
8. Missing one or two classes each semester is acceptable.
9. Most of us take comfort in the fact that our Addictions and Aggressions are socially acceptable enough that no one pushes us to jump into rehab, but these behaviors wreak havoc on our lives every day, and not just because they keep us from living healthy lifestyles.
10. Numbers in a spreadsheet without support were not going to be acceptable, especially since the business had never achieved breakeven volume.