LIABLE in a Sentence
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46 example sentences for LIABLE, such as:
1. Offenders may be liable to a heavy fine.
2. All adult males will be liable for conscription.
3. Top salaries are liable for a higher rate of tax.
4. They could be found liable for the entire amount.
5. She will grow into a woman particularly liable to depression.
2. All adult males will be liable for conscription.
3. Top salaries are liable for a higher rate of tax.
4. They could be found liable for the entire amount.
5. She will grow into a woman particularly liable to depression.
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Meanings and Examples of LIABLE
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liable
a. held legally responsible
a. subject to legal action
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 "Yes, but she's mighty liable to talk embarrassing in front of Father and the girls when we get home tonight," said Stuart gloomily.
2 The trains are crowded and uncertain and the passengers are liable to be put off in the woods at any time, if the trains are needed for the wounded or troops and supplies.
3 Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this accident than any other species.
4 He traveled upon the railroad with several other men, hiding in freight cars at night, and liable to be thrown off at any time, regardless of the speed of the train.
5 They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.
6 Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes.
7 I was yet liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the tortures of slavery.
8 The noises of the battle were like stones; he believed himself liable to be crushed.
9 The youth could detect no expression that would allow him to believe that the other was giving a thought to his narrowed future, the pictured dungeons, perhaps, and starvations and brutalities, liable to the imagination.
10 It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into "Four legs good, two legs bad" at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches.
11 Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop.
12 It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood.
13 But, I say we are all liable to mistakes and I should feel sensible of your delicacy, and grateful for it, if you would spare me these references to Harthouse.
14 Nor were they less careful to prevent any unhallowed layman from touching the pall, which, having been that used at the funeral of Saint Edmund, was liable to be desecrated, if handled by the profane.
15 The woman has gone away: we don't know where to: but she is liable to arrest if she shows her face in Tevershall.
Example Sentence:
1 The Act states that anyone committing the offence is liable to imprisonment.
2 All adult males will be liable for conscription.
3 The law holds parents liable if a child does not attend school.
4 Top salaries are liable for a higher rate of tax.
5 The right to demand payment from the endorser of a commercial paper when the first party liable fails to pay.
6 The court ruled he could not be held personally liable for his wife's debts.
7 They could be found liable for the entire amount.
8 Offenders may be liable to a heavy fine.
9 Failure to provide insurance rendered him liable to prosecution.
10 She will grow into a woman particularly liable to depression.
11 Only a small minority of the mentally ill are liable to harm themselves or others.
12 I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.