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How to use passably in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word passably? Here are some examples.

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This score may function passably within the context of the film, but outside it is meaningless, barely raising even a frisson of fear.
She'll use that deformed arm to play the piano passably well and to complete elaborate needlework projects.
I didn't want to go to the ball at all, but as Mother insisted I did attend, I would at least look passably pretty.
Standing there was a young man a few years older than me, passably good-looking but with a slightly weedy air about him.
However even a passably careful reading of the thing reveals that it fails to provide significant evidence that Clark supported the war.
But what I find most surprising is that I think they've all been passably good.
She's just a passably pretty girl from Llanelli with a bit of a tip about herself.
A wide range of grape varieties is grown at least passably well, which has distracted from the question of what the district does best.
Half an hour later the laundry was passably clean and Anna had ended up even more scungy than before.
The horseman, aka Abraham, is actually passably cute, with a rocking bod and apparently steady source of income.
If they can't, it's usually fairly easy to teach them to do so passably.
The kitchen made a passably good job of smoked haddock eggs Benedict.
Neither Afghanistan not Pakistan can be passably stable while Pakistan is so divided.
He learned to speak French passably, declared them a nation and gave the province a special seat at international gatherings.
The system of teaching pupils and then testing them on what had been taught worked passably well with the mass of children in school.
Though this kind of C2 works passably for a tiny fleet of aircraft, it will break down as the ANAAC increases in size over the next few years.
The demonstration, with a passably violent tone, was dispersed by the forces of repression.
In that regard, the Christmas drives do passably well for the month of December and, if the people and organizations marshal their resources well, into January.
According to liberalizers' dogma, this is a logical option which works passably, for example, in agriculture.
She was passably pretty, with large green eyes and flowing golden curls.
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I think I'll try to be at least passably good and obedient in the schoolroom.
And at that thought all that was passably decent in the man came to the surface.
But, bad for idle schoolboys, it did so happen that they were passably good for him.
She was able to do the work of this grade, not well, but passably.
The flail is a passably good flail, and will not wear out yet.
Edward Byrom was tall, well-made, and passably good-looking.
He attended strictly to his duties, and accomplished all of them passably.
You're more than passably good-looking, and you're surprisingly clever.
With all these, he found Tyrrel more than passably acquainted.
He was young and, under other conditions, passably good looking.
We learned both languages passably well, and we learned them wholly in the saddle or in camp.
I realised a long time ago that the only way to be passably good as a columnist is to be fairly sure that deep down you're feeble.
No one in this country has any authority to legislate a requirement that the religious must participate in sacrilege, even passably.
They seemed to take no heed of her presence, and talked of her aloud, to her face, as of something unclean, abject, and yet, at the same time, passably pretty.
I amuse myself by paying a few compliments to a schoolgirl for whom I do not care two straws more than for any agreeable and passably clever woman I meet.
Blanche was passably attractive and passably intelligent, and no more.
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