The force of prejudice and of custom has made the latter light and supportable to us.
In the next Place we should consider, though the Evil we imagine should come to pass, it may be much more supportable than it appeared to be.
But this were supportable still, would they suffer me to enjoy an uninterrupted Ignorance; but, unless I fall in with their abstracted Idea of Things (as they call them) I must not expect to smoak one Pipe in Quiet.
All this would have been supportable had he not accompanied it with a shocking affectation, which may be judged of by one example taken from a hundred.
This is the supportable approximation they would rest patient with, That by their work they might be kept alive to work more!
Some not insupportable approximation indispensable and inevitable.
We remark farther, that there are supportable approximations, and then likewise insupportable.
She had already experienced the evils of being protectorless and indigent, and my seasonable interference snatched her from impending and less supportable ills.
She possessed super-abundant health and good-humour, and was quite a supportable companion in the hay-field or the barnyard.
To be immersed in the infection of the hospital, and to be hurried, yet breathing and observant, to my grave, was a more supportable fate.
Many odours had been met with, even since my arrival in the city, less supportable than this.
Except the bed-chamber of the ambassador, which, however, was not in very good order, there was not a corner in the whole house supportable to an modest man.
Edgar, through these unpardonable deviations from right, was irretrievably lost to her, excited sorrow the most depressing for her father, and regrets scarce supportable for herself.
The rapture of the Oxonian was converted into torture by this summons; and the suspence which the moment before he had gilded with the gay colours of hope, he felt would be no longer supportable when deprived of the sight of his divinity.
Intense heat prevails under the equator, but rendered supportable by the excessive humidity of the atmosphere and the copious dews.
A nickname that was supportable from the actors and scene-shifters was insupportable from a child.
Supportable might this be, but cold indifference to a poor devil aching for a gleam of sympathy is insupportable.
The accounts of the preceding night had been most cruel, and to quit the spot was scarce supportable to him.
Passionate complaints aresupportable only in a recitative obligato, or in grand airs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supportable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acceptable; demonstrable; light; provable; supportable; tenable; tolerable; verifiable; viable
