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Example sentences for "sizeable"

Lexicographically close words:
siya; sizable; sizar; sizars; size; sized; sizes; sizing; sizzle; sizzled
  1. It too had been up most of the night engaging a sizeable force of infiltrators.

  2. Three days of firing by Admiral Blandy’s sizeable bombardment force would deliver four times the amount of shells Tarawa received, and one and a half times that delivered against larger Saipan.

  3. These birds, unlike the Reef Herons, preferred grasslands to beach areas for feeding and were usually seen in sizeable flocks.

  4. As a result sizeable collections of mammals, birds, and other vertebrates were obtained.

  5. Hicks and Flaherty were sizeable persons and while, individually, they were no match for the tremendous Gibney, nevertheless what they lacked in horsepower they made up in pugnacity--and the salt sea seldom breeds a craven.

  6. We had a pond back of our barn about the bigness of a good sizeable wash-tub, and it was chock full of frogs.

  7. The potential for inter-ethnic tension is deemed to be sizeable by the West.

  8. Slovenia and Macedonia are ethnically homogeneous (Macedonia with a sizeable Albanian minority, though).

  9. In 1912 Kosovo had a sizeable Serb majority.

  10. In about a half hour arter Rufus raced off to the Falls, back he comes as hard as he could tear, a-puffing and a blowin' like a sizeable grampus.

  11. As for his exterior, I imagine him as moderately sizeable and well-muscled and plain, or you wouldn't have brought him around.

  12. Central Park, if piled up with hay, would be a right sizeable stack.

  13. A sizeable piece of salt pork was cut in two pieces, each of which was gashed with a knife.

  14. We arrove in Venice about the middle of the afternoon, and as Robert had writ ahead for rooms, a man wuz waitin' with a sizeable gondola to take us to our tarven.

  15. Josiah insisted on't that it wuz called the Bridge of Size, because it wuz the most sizeable bridge in the world.

  16. Galileo's monument wuz a sizeable one, but none too big for the man who discovered the telescope and the motion of the earth.

  17. As the natives would not assist them over the river to the north bank, they cut down a big tree and with axe and fire hollowed it into a sizeable canoe which conveyed them across to the north bank to Ipoto.

  18. Ellerton Grange was near Uttoxeter, and Uttoxeter was a sizeable townlet just inside my own county, and some fifteen miles from Ashbourne.

  19. At the saddle-bow there hung a sizeable leathern pouch, and this I found to contain a good supply of charges.

  20. Over and above the pistols and their ammunition I found a sizeable leathern bag, and the feel of it to my fingers showed that it was chock-full of money.

  21. The Soviet Union had been selling a sizeable amount each year in the free world.

  22. The importance which the bloc attaches to these undertakings is found not only in the mountains of propaganda it issues on the subject, but in the sizeable expenditures it makes.

  23. After the United States acquired Puerto Rico, a sizeable number of Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland.

  24. As the underground Railway developed, this trickle swelled into a sizeable flow.

  25. This immigration of foreign-born blacks into the cities of the North and West was concurrent with a sizeable movement of American blacks from the rural South into these same cities.

  26. It has sizeable but underdeveloped hydropower capacity.

  27. There were a few boxes and a large table upon which rested a sizeable object covered with canvas.

  28. Instantly she saw a bruise on the stranger's forehead and a sizeable swollen place.

  29. Remittances from Mongolians working abroad both legally and illegally constitute a sizeable portion.

  30. If this mild weather continues we ought to get some very sizeable fish.

  31. I was bo'n in slavery, and I was a right sizeable gal when freedom come.

  32. I don't know how old I is, but I 'members de start of de war, and I was a sizeable chile den.

  33. Underhill thought he was marrying a girl with a sizeable chunk of the ready, and, when the fuse blew out, he decided it wasn't good enough.

  34. Years ago he had read somewhere or heard somewhere about some chappie who always buzzed around with a sizeable banknote stitched into his clothes, and the scheme had seemed to him ripe to a degree.

  35. Befo' I's a sizeable child, mammy took sick with diphtheria and died and pappy had to be mammy and pappy to us.

  36. Us had a sizeable drove of cattle and some sheep and pigs and chickens and ducks.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sizeable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.