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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    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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    BOY WILLIE: If he had a whole sack of money you liable never to see him.†  (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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    And then having to sit through the trial and listen to it all again ....I doubted very seriously that he would be held criminally liable for his actions.†  (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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    Seven dollars, the man said; and that night came Jurgis, grim and determined, requesting that the agent would be good enough to inform him, once for all, as to all the expenses they were liable for.†  (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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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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    Your wolf is liable to frighten the horses, and my dog seems to frighten you.†  (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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    Those white police are liable to do something worse to her than what already happened.†  (source)
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    The rest of her looks liable to blow away in a strong breeze.†  (source)
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    The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag.†  (source)
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    You better watch yourself, or Chablis is liable to start running your life too.†  (source)
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    It's liable to be that long before he stop by.†  (source)
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    The gentlemen are liable to retire to the smoking room at any moment.†  (source)
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