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Example sentences for "liable"

Lexicographically close words:
lhe; lia; liabilities; liability; liaison; liaisons; liaj; liam; lian
  1. If any one man gets between two squares occupied by his enemies, he is killed and taken off, except the king, who is not liable to this misfortune.

  2. How liable must it be to take fire, and how much must unavoidably be spilt in consequence of such management!

  3. No punitive damages intended to punish or deter, exemplary damages, or other damages not intended to compensate a plaintiff for actual losses may be awarded, nor shall any party be liable for interest prior to the judgment.

  4. Beyond a doubt, most of those persons who had been denounced as notorious heretics and blasphemers in the Sion College manifesto of the preceding December were, by this Ordinance, liable to death if they did not recant.

  5. Hill's]; wherein is discovered the great failings that the best are liable unto, upon which God is provoked sometimes to take vengeance.

  6. Give my love to Aunt Lydia and Gerty, for I suppose I am not likely to see them, as I am liable to be sent away any day.

  7. There was liable to be some unpleasantness at any time between Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas; but everything was quiet just now.

  8. At the same time my informants admitted with regret that landlordism in the Highlands was liable to special abuses, an instance of which had come to the fore recently.

  9. Thus, stone cutters, knife grinders and polishers, on account of inhaling the irritating dust, are more liable to the disease than any other class.

  10. Workers in lead, as typesetters and house painters, are more liable to gout than others.

  11. In irreducible ruptures there is likely to be constipation and colic produced, and strangulation is more liable to occur.

  12. In small doses, it will prevent the occurrence of diphtheria in those exposed, or liable to exposure, to the disease.

  13. Exposure to cold and wet and to germ-laden air renders persons more liable to attacks.

  14. It is seen more often in spring and autumn and in those living an out-of-door existence, and having once had quinsy the victim is liable to frequent recurrences of the disease.

  15. The fact is that anyone is liable to mental disorder; but mental disorder is not insanity.

  16. Anyone is liable to lose the way in a fog like this and I will count it a privilege to help you locate Joe.

  17. He knew she would be delighted to learn of his new position as Ben Wade's private secretary and she was; but he was careful to keep from her any details of recent happenings that would be liable to cause her anxiety.

  18. She's liable to run into all sorts of trouble.

  19. Despising conceit in others, he was too prone, perhaps, to take himself to task for those little mistakes which every young man is liable to make from time to time.

  20. It wasn't necessary to seek these in the distorted perspectives of the criminal underworld or the political intrigues of Continental Europe, for ordinary people were just as liable to have adventures.

  21. There isn't room in the canoe in the first place and besides there's liable to be trouble.

  22. Until the legal recognition of tenant-right had been secured, the tenant who made improvements was liable to have his rent raised, and was aware that he had no legal right to compensation for them on his removal from the holding.

  23. He is held in slavery against his will, and not as the punishment for any crime; and yet, if he ventures to take his freedom, to assert the highest and holiest of all his rights, he is liable to be hunted with dogs and maimed with shot!

  24. Page 119: "The relation is liable to disruption in a variety of forms, for some of which there is no remedy.

  25. In all these places the men perspire considerably, and they would be very liable to take a chill, especially in the winter months, if they were forced to go out into the cold air to meals.

  26. This, if it is whirled round at an excessive speed, is liable to burst, and the consequences, in a crowded quarter, would be disastrous.

  27. When the workman is not feeling well he is liable to meet with an accident at any moment.

  28. I determined to leave the world, if not for ever, at least as long as its temptations to err, in the remotest degree, were liable to beset my path.

  29. You might have been mistaken; every body is liable to be deceived--even a person's eyes deceive him sometimes.

  30. Nor is our doctrine liable to the imputation of such faults as Anyonyasrayata,[54] &c.

  31. For with regard to these evolutionary differences that are liable to change many questions have to be considered.

  32. It is an entirely mistaken view, founded on insufficient knowledge, that in early civilisations women were a source of weakness to the men of the tribe or group, and, thus, liable to oppression.

  33. It seemed strange that men would build houses and make farms in a place where they are each year liable to be driven out by such freshets.

  34. At last, in March, 1846, an act of the Departmental Assembly made the missions liable to the laws of bankruptcy, and authorized the governor to sell them to private persons.

  35. Another point to be noticed is that the homestead is not liable for the debts of the holder contracted prior to the issuing of the patent.

  36. It--it's liable to be a pretty--stiff game.

  37. None of us are drinkers, but then we're all liable to get a little too much sometimes, especially when we sit up late and play poker.

  38. The stuff is liable to explode any moment!

  39. Then we are liable to go scooting skyward in a hurry!

  40. You are not liable to," said the tall man.

  41. You'd be liable to kiss her before you collected your presence of mind.

  42. If this is the case, where is the advantage of the law requiring that the writing should be false before a man shall be liable to punishment, or of his having the liberty of proving the truth of his writing?

  43. From their very nature, they must be liable to abuse on both sides.

  44. And the governors and the officials subject to them should know that if they do not observe these matters they will be liable to the extreme penalty [i.

  45. Whoever dares to transgress this command is subject before all to the fearful judgment of Almighty God, and then also will be liable to the punishment for such as despise the imperial commands.

  46. The clerk of one who was liable to be thrown down by an evil spirit was set free; as was also a relative of another, and the little boy of a third.

  47. For it is not just that when a patrimony liable to this public duty has been excused all should not bear the common burden in proportion to ability.

  48. They preferred to dwell in their private houses, from which they were not liable to be driven by a change of ministry or a grist of popular disfavor.

  49. But the cases where ladies were daily liable to meet an offensive neighbor on their common staircase were comparatively rare; and when the annoyance actually occurred, the discipline of the Inn afforded a remedy.

  50. Its own words are also liable to a kind of chemical change when encountering foreign matter (e.

  51. Other ancient writers concur in the statement that the elk when pursued is liable to epileptic fits, but that he can occasionally relieve himself from the malady by opening a vein in his ear with his hind foot.

  52. The harpooners say that three-year-old bulls are the most liable to attack a boat, especially if it is allowed to overrun them when fast to a harpoon line.

  53. Whatever weapons are taken, they should be of simple construction and strongly made, for they are liable to receive hard knocks in the rough, wet work incidental to walrus hunting.

  54. That way may be open an' it's liable to be closed while we're stayin' here.

  55. I'm making this little statement because something's liable to happen to one, or both of us.

  56. The black reputation he had given to Rathburn led him to believe that the man could not be depended upon, and that he was liable to carry out his threat and blow them all to bits.

  57. Now, Percy, if you're acquainted with this country in here an' can steer the way to where the posse'll be liable to overlook us you better be leading on.

  58. Anything you learn is liable to prove handy some time.

  59. I am aware that in making this statement I am liable to a charge of prejudice against the ignorant people, of whom I can only speak with pity not unmixed with kindness.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accountable; amenable; apt; card; debt; dependent; disposed; exposed; fair; fault; foreseeable; given; hopeful; inclined; indebted; liable; likely; naked; obligated; open; pledged; predictable; presumable; presumptive; probable; promising; prone; ready; responsible; susceptible