Sample Sentences for
liable
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(editor-reviewed)

liable as in:  is legally liable

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She was drunk and liable for the death of the other driver.
liable = held legally responsible
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    They jury concluded that Starbucks is not liable for burns their customer received when coffee spilled into her lap.
    liable = legally responsible
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    And whether his attitude likes it or not, he's liable for that and for my missing property.†  (source)
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    F-A-T. I talked to Bobo and he's down, but Bobo liable not to show.†  (source)
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    As a result of immunity law, the Court held that a prosecutor cannot be held liable for misconduct in a criminal case, even if he intentionally and illegally withheld evidence of innocence.†  (source)
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    No stone was quarried there any longer; even the company that owned it had gone out of business and no one in the county knew who was liable.†  (source)
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    Liable, by the laws of a country that calls itself civilized, to be sold with horses and pigs!†  (source)
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    As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities — he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.†  (source)
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    Though by no means less liable than their fellow-men to age and infirmity, they had evidently some talisman or other that kept death at bay.†  (source)
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    BOY WILLIE: If he had a whole sack of money you liable never to see him.†  (source)
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    If he does have Ebola, and it spreads within the hospital, am I liable?†  (source)
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    "So we'll let a court decide who's liable," I replied.†  (source)
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    They would be liable for damage if their equipment caused harm to clients' property.†  (source)
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    Today, a man is liable for rape even if the victim later agrees to marry him.†  (source)
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liable as in:  she is liable to

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She's so busy, she's liable to forget.
liable = likely to
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    She's not liable to forget something that important.
    liable = likely
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    I thought it better to wait, however, before making so grave a statement, for of old I knew the sudden changes to which this particular patient was liable.  (source)
    liable = likely to (experience)
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    He's liable to start somethin', and there's some little folks here.†  (source)
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    Ron said cautiously, because she was liable to explode when interrupted these days.†  (source)
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    We go into danger, to which you are, or may be, more liable than any of us from …. from circumstances …. things that have been.  (source)
    liable = likely (to suffer)
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    Those white police are liable to do something worse to her than what already happened.†  (source)
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    Your wolf is liable to frighten the horses, and my dog seems to frighten you.†  (source)
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    The rest of her looks liable to blow away in a strong breeze.†  (source)
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    Lord, Mrs. Myers was liable to crack her face if she kept up smiling like that.†  (source)
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    You better watch yourself, or Chablis is liable to start running your life too.†  (source)
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    The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag.†  (source)
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    Maybe it was partly my worry that any artwork was liable to get him into trouble all over again.†  (source)
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    If the judge decides Darry isn't a good guardian or something, I'm liable to get stuck in a home somewhere.†  (source)
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