Sample Sentences for
tenable
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    I cannot conceal from you, sir, that the camp will not be much longer tenable;  (source)
    tenable = defensible
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    None of the available chairs was tenable.†  (source)
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    That became less tenable when she was hosting ambassadors, so she began going out without permission.†  (source)
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    But in the moonlight she could imagine people scrambling over flaming cars to escape the crumbling city, panicking in their flight from this untenable pile of metal and stone.  (source)
    untenable = not defensible
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untenable means not and reverses the meaning of tenable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable.†  (source)
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    For any thinking person, it's untenable.  (source)
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    But when she was in conversation with Mrs. Plymdale that comforting explanation seemed no longer tenable.†  (source)
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    The situation was becoming untenable, anyway.  (source)
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    You have been led from the extreme of independence to the extreme of subjection without meeting with a single tenable position for shelter or repose.†  (source)
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    The more I thought about it, the more untenable my position seemed to be.  (source)
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    The place was, in fact, becoming less and less tenable.†  (source)
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    SAC's bases in Africa and Spain would be untenable and melt away.  (source)
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    If any one could point out an intermediate and yet a tenable position between the complete independence and the entire subjection of the public expression of opinion, I should perhaps be inclined to adopt it; but the difficulty is to discover this position.†  (source)
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