tenable

in a sentence

I cannot conceal from you, sir, that the camp will not be much longer tenable;  (source) James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826

None of the available chairs was tenable.†  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

That became less tenable when she was hosting ambassadors, so she began going out without permission.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

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) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

You won't even speak my name, paisan?" he asked disbelievingly, as though the reality, the untenability, of his position was reaching his consciousness at last.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

Your position is untenable.  (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001

But when she was in conversation with Mrs. Plymdale that comforting explanation seemed no longer tenable.†  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

The more I thought about it, the more untenable my position seemed to be.  (source) Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor, 2007

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) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

For any thinking person, it's untenable.  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

The place was, in fact, becoming less and less tenable.†  (source) Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831

The situation is entirely untenable, and I know it.  (source) Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, 2007