Sample sentences for PRACTICABLE

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Definition

capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

or more rarely:

usable for a specific purpose

a dangerous, but practicable plan

Investment based on genuine long-term expectation is scarcely practicable in the current political environment.
One of these ridges, which appeared more practicable than the rest, we determined to climb, convinced that it would conduct us to the heights beyond.
Herman Melville -- Typee
"I know it, Meg, for I've tried it, and I seldom give advice unless I've proved its practicability.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Which is the easiest and most practicable plan, RECONCILIATION OR INDEPENDANCE?
Thomas Paine -- Common Sense
But we did try very hard not to let it be known abroad that we were trying to make it practicable.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
Aside from the ethics of the matter, I'm afraid it isn't practicable.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to judge by their wells, must be.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
My relatives were constantly on the lookout for a chance of escape; but none offered that seemed practicable, and even tolerably safe.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The passage of the vehicles might have been practicable if empty; but built up with hay to the bedroom windows as one was, it was impossible.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
It would hardly be practicable to fold a blanket of blubber twenty centimetres thick around that framework.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out.
George Orwell -- 1984
It is possible, Haidee, that so perfect a seclusion, though conformable with the habits and customs of the East, may not be practicable in Paris.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
He had been drawing Tom out, rather than reflecting on the practicability of his proposal.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The absolute should be practicable.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Is it practicable for any of the others to double it?
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
—How can you imagine such conduct practicable?
Jane Austen -- Emma
The council listened, then voiced agreement that a "vigorous attempt" should be made, but only when "practicable."
David G. McCullough -- 1776
I am convinced of the perfect practicability of its removal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

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