Synonyms for supportable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : suh-pawr-tuh-buh l, -pohr-
Phonetic Transcription : səˈpɔr tə bəl, -ˈpoʊr-


Définition of supportable

  • adj sustainable
Example sentences :
  • If it be for what I apprehend it to be, life will not be supportable upon the terms.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • The only thing which makes it supportable for a while is curiosity.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • The historical form has at last found a poet to render it supportable.
  • Extract from : « The Merry-Go-Round » by Carl Van Vechten
  • How then could seven or eight hundred years of life be supportable?
  • Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
  • To her it is only the thought that her state of dependence is temporary that makes it supportable.
  • Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton
  • Life was so terrible it would not be supportable without love.
  • Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West
  • If a horse should be elated and say, "I am handsome," it would be supportable.
  • Extract from : « The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. » by Various
  • The descent only occupied two or three minutes, and yet the shock was supportable.
  • Extract from : « Wonderful Balloon Ascents » by Fulgence Marion
  • I think it a supportable thesis that every age, every wide and popular movement, finds its supreme expression in a Poet.
  • Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 » by Various
  • But I left myself in a solitary situation, which even the return of my good fortune cannot render easy and supportable.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete » by Tobias Smollett

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