Sample Sentences for
amenable
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    She was amenable to changing the meeting time if it made things easier for the group.
    amenable = willing to agree
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    He chats to amenable guards and tries to understand the dynamic among the prisoners.†  (source)
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    Some scales aren't that amenable to the proverbial thumb.†  (source)
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    The young one will be more amenable to control.†  (source)
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    "As she did far more amenably in your case," Hans Castorp said, "and as she has done a good many times in all probability—that much must be clear to anyone who finds himself in the situation where ..."†  (source)
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    The parents were amenable and had been all along.†  (source)
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    The cabin was far more amenable to cargo than to people.†  (source)
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    As long as this is what you want, and Mr. Hobart's amenable, I see nothing wrong with this arrangement for the time being.†  (source)
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    She then slammed down the telephone and booked a table at the more amenable but less exclusive Chatham Club.†  (source)
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    "I got some fine piecework to barter, if you're amenable," I hear a man say to Mr. Nielsen, standing behind the counter.†  (source)
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    The sows didn't love this, our handling the baby pigs, but in the first few days they were still amenable and almost sleepy.†  (source)
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    The child could not be made amenable to rules.†  (source)
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    Mind, I don't say a CRIME; I am not speaking of shedding of blood or any other guilty act, which might make the perpetrator amenable to the law: my word is ERROR.†  (source)
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