ACCEPTABLE in a Sentence

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406 example sentences for ACCEPTABLE, such as:
1. It comes, too, in such an acceptable moment.
2. Such behavior is just not acceptable in this school.
3. He knew it to be his due, but his due was acceptable.
4. They may hesitate as to an acceptable wedding present.
5. Soldiers and sailors are always acceptable in society.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ACCEPTABLE
acceptable
 a.  adequate for the purpose
 a.  judged to be in conformity with approved usage
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He knew it to be his due, but his due was acceptable.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
2  If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
3  Friend Wamba," said he, "of all those who are fools enough to serve Cedric, thou alone hast dexterity enough to make thy folly acceptable to him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  To her cousins she became occasionally an acceptable companion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Soldiers and sailors are always acceptable in society.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  It comes, too, in such an acceptable moment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  They may hesitate as to an acceptable wedding present.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9  The mules could not be spared to go off to war, even if they had been acceptable for the Troop, which they emphatically were not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  That was about the only excuse that was socially acceptable for not nursing these days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  The young lady was treated by her hosts with corresponding deference; and she was in the mood when such attentions are acceptable, whatever their source.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
12  She acceded to the suggestion of bouillon, which was grateful and acceptable.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
13  The coffee and the biscuit accompanying it proved very acceptable to Edna, who had declined refreshment at Madame Lebrun's and was now beginning to feel hungry.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
14  The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  Students who achieve an acceptable standard will progress to degree studies.
2  Such behavior is just not acceptable in this school.
3  Smacking is not an acceptable way of punishing a child.
4  We must come up with a solution that our shareholders will find acceptable.
5  Where our children's education is concerned, no compromise is acceptable.
6  As already mentioned, the legislation does not consider low pay as an acceptable reason for turning down a job.
7  This validation process ensures that the data conforms to acceptable formats.
8  Criminal libel is unlikely to occur other than rarely, but is available to define the limits of acceptable behaviour.
9  We eventually arrived at a figure that was mutually acceptable.
10  Advertising is a potent force in showing smoking as a socially acceptable habit.
11  The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable.
12  Farmers are struggling to maintain a level of productivity that generates an acceptable income.
13  The quality ranged from acceptable to worse than useless.
14  Commonly, both are used consistently to help replace an undesirable behaviour with acceptable behaviour.
15  On the far side of the street was a restaurant that looked acceptable.