Among slightly teachable mammals, however, there is one group more teachable than the rest.
Horses and dogs, bears and elephants, parrots and monkeys, are all teachable to some extent, and we have even heard of a learned pig.
Milton fell into the common booby-trap of refuting his opponents item by item, thus leaving them the strong affirmative position, instead of providing a positive and teachable statement of his own faith.
He has left them on record, that all who will heed them in the meek and teachable spirit of a little child may be lifted out of the mire and filth and darkness of a sinful life into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
The young lion, tamed, but his courage and strength reserved by being regenerated, would feed with the calf; and the little child of innocent will and teachable understanding would lead them.
He told his disciples always to take the lowest seat when invited to a feast; that to be his disciples in the true sense and become prepared for the kingdom of heaven, they must have the meek and teachable spirit of a little child.
He had abilities, but they were not teachable qualities; he could pick up a certain amount of almost anything,--he could learn nothing.
Some of these baboons are as tamable and teachable as other monkeys, but they grow unruly and ferocious as they become old.
I see it does indeed need to be approached in a teachable spirit.
What a blessing it is that, when we take up our Bibles in a humble and teachable spirit, we can say, `Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Now I would just advise and urge you all to take up this blessed book in a humble and teachable spirit, and you'll find it to be to you what God in his mercy has made it to me.
In regard to the Bakwains, though they had promised well at first, they had not been a very teachable people.
A (man of) teachable mind will hang about a wise man's neck.
Virtue then is teachable in so far as it is possible to persuade a boy or a man by rhetoric that that course of conduct which pleases others is a pleasant course for him.
She herself would become responsible for the outcome if only they were teachable and obedient.
The writer is inclined to think the churches at present are more teachable than the more recent religious movements.
Therefore, if any one were to give it out that roasted cormorants are delicious, the Roman youth, teachablein depravity, would acquiesce, in it.
We must come with a humble and teachablespirit to obtain knowledge from the great I AM.
Whenever the study of the Scriptures is entered upon without a prayerful, humble, teachable spirit, the plainest and simplest as well as the most difficult passages will be wrested from their true meaning.
He lived therefore to see the fruit of his good rule and government in the church, even to see his teachable and dedicated son caught up to God, and to his throne.
He found his scholars a very teachable race, and it is only now necessary to describe the way in which any particular method should be practised, in order to secure success.
Tisquantum heard with a willing and teachable spirit, and he believed, and was at peace.
The Teachable and the Unteachable I hope my position is now beginning to be tolerably clear to the reader.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teachable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
