Sample Sentences for
liable
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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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    if anyone bothers you tell them 'tis government orders and they're not to interfere in government business and if they lay a finger on you they're liable to arrest, imprisonment and a large fine  (source)
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    As he cannot be influenced by those feelings which you rank highly as temptation and reward to the soldier and sailor in their choice of a profession, as heroism, and noise, and fashion, are all against him, he ought to be less liable to the suspicion of wanting sincerity or good intentions in the choice of his.  (source)
    liable = thought guilty
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By the penal law of Massachusetts, any Catholic priest who should set foot in the colony after having been once driven out of it was liable to capital punishment  (source)
liable = legally subject (to a penalty)
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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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    He's liable to start somethin', and there's some little folks here.  (source)
    liable = maybe going to
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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)
    liable = likely to
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    If you leave him in the chocolate-mixing barrel too long, he's liable to get poured out into the fudge boiler,  (source)
    liable = maybe going to
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    She's liable to say anything.  (source)
    liable = may (maybe going to)
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    If you go late in the morning they're liable to be cranky after seeing hundreds of men women and children sick and asking for help.  (source)
    liable = likely (to); or maybe going (to)
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    He hated using his hands, and he hated bending down, which was always liable to start him coughing.  (source)
    liable = maybe going to
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    he's liable to bite somebody else  (source)
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    "I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."  (source)
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    He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.  (source)
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    I afterwards hired a mule, as the more sure-footed and least liable to receive injury on these rugged roads.  (source)
    liable = likely
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    But you can't expect me to visit here again in a hurry, if I'm liable to be flown at and insulted in such a fashion.  (source)
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    He looked haggard and feeble, and betrayed a nerveless despondency in his air, which had never so remarkably characterised him in his walks about the settlement, nor in any other situation where he deemed himself liable to notice.  (source)
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