APPLICABLE in a Sentence

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131 example sentences for APPLICABLE, such as:
1. I wearied them with new applications.
2. This rule is not applicable to young persons.
3. Hot applications helped to localize the infection.
4. That is internationally and universally applicable.
5. The standard of this year's applications is very low.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of APPLICABLE
applicable
 a.  capable of being applied; having relevance
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
2  But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
3  That is internationally and universally applicable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
4  After he had sufficiently extolled the property of discretion, he undertook to exhibit in what manner its use was applicable to the present situation of their tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
5  Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
6  In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV
7  This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly applicable to Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
8  If ever the sic vos non vobis was applicable, it certainly is to that village of Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
9  But how far this might be applicable to our courts, and favourites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
10  I wish also to recall to memory an instance from the Old Testament applicable to this subject.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AN...
11  He did not send one of his men, but rode back with her himself, taking a syringe and an old piece of carpet he kept for hot applications when our horses were sick.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
12  The woman, whom long practice with the victims of brutality had made familiar with many healing arts, went on to make many applications to Tom's wounds, by means of which he was soon somewhat relieved.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
14  And all these calls in person, to say nothing of the applications received through the mails.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.
15  I wearied them with new applications.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  This technique is applicable to a wide variety of crops, but some modifications may be necessary to accommodate the peculiarities of each type.
2  This rule is not applicable to young persons.
3  This concept may be equally applicable in other sectors, such as services and information-ultimately producing more leisure time.
4  The new law on the protection of the environments is applicable to everybody from next year.
5  The section of the form is not applicable in your case.
6  It appears to me that this maxim is applicable to the medical as well as to the nautical profession.
7  In order to be able to check and compare price quotation, we need currently applicable insurance rates.
8  We have lots of applications from people who want to study here and in each case we consider the candidate very carefully.
9  Although the concept of fund accounting is relatively simple, specific applications of it can be difficult to understand.
10  A lot of applications have been filed with the department.
11  Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.
12  Judy wrote a dozen applications for jobs but got nothing.
13  The unemployed engineer wrote a dozen applications for jobs but got nothing.
14  Hot applications helped to localize the infection.
15  The standard of this year's applications is very low.