An apology for our rough touring suits led to some few questions and replies about the regimental tartan of the Morays, in the history of which he was passably well informed.
Here are four passably good lines, which vaguely remind the reader of something better read elsewhere; a common case enough with the more tolerable work of small imitative poets.
The verses intervening are smooth, simple, and passably well worded; indeed the force of elegant commonplace cannot well go further than in such lines as these.
Keeping even passably tidy was impossible, and in personal cleanliness a London scavenger could give a traveller by rail from Cairo to Assouan many points.
The great majority of the dervishes carried Remingtons, and these, as a rule, were in passably good condition.
The which, if you are poor, is a passably infallible test.
On the whole she was passably content for the moment, in a severe fashion, save to feel herself the dreadful lying engine and fruitlessly abject person that she had become.
On the same side resided a Mr. Nolin, with his family, consisting of three half-breed boys and as many girls, one of whom was passably pretty.
Mr. Hallet was a polite sociable man, loving his ease passably well, and desirous of living in these wild countries, as people do in civilized lands.
Since each of these passably isolable interests is a propensity of the organic agent man, with his complex of habits of thought, the expression of each is affected by habits of life formed under the guidance of all the rest.
The keepers of the socialist doctrines are passably agreed as to the main position and the general principles.
Gerda wasn't highly civilized, was hardly passably educated, and keen would be an inapt word for that queer, remote, woodland mind of hers.
But she adores you, Dick; and she will be passably happy with a house to manage, and a visit from you when you can spare the time.
Happily the inhabitants of the Five Towns in that era were passably pleased with themselves, and they never even suspected that they were not quite modern and quite awake.
Bird song never exactly conforms to our musical notation, and there is no instrument save the human "whistle" which will even passably reproduce the quality of the Meadowlark's song.
When King Joseph left Madrid the palace was closed, and the government established itself in a passably good building which had been used as the post-office.
The plaintiff, a very worthy young man, passably good looking, was a man of my profession, a detective engaged in protecting the interests of a young and beautiful girl.
At that moment she was young and very passably pretty--an elegant spirited Serena of eighteen, rather than a faded and, alas!
A sort of apocryphal tradition is said to linger in the island about Rousseau's last evening on the island, how after supper he called for a lute, and sang some passably bad verses.
In being so, he separated himself from Voltaire and his school, who didpassably well without religion.
Blanche was passablyattractive and passably intelligent, and no more.
This afternoon, as he draws his curtain and lights his lamp, he is passably content with himself and the world; for he has just discovered a new volume of Schumann that takes his fancy.
He understood at once that the story being passably discreditable to the d'Oriani, he had better seem to fall in with their view of the case, by holding his peace when he could.
As Manito grows at this Station, its vine characters are all good and the fruit is passably so.
As long as grape consumers demand a showy grape to be had at a low price, and without much regard as to quality, if the grape be passably good, Niagara will be popular.
He speaks French passably well; he translates Italian fairly, and does not err deeply in copying other authors; but he does not pretend to have the gift of invention or a genius for poetry.
Bagged game never fly well, seldom passably even; and they demoralise a hawk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
