equable

Example Sentences

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The young world of aviation came away thinking that L.A. — with its basin of wide, flat places and equable weather — was indeed the place for aviation’s future.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

Michael Gove has described his sacking last week by Boris Johnson, calling the PM “very equable, very polite” during the call.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2022

Our reviewer, Samantha Harvey, praised “the equable plainness of its language, a plainness that is nevertheless impressionistic and light-filled.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2021

The chief justice declared of Austen: “Her flights are not lofty, she does not soar on eagles’ wings, but she is pleasing, interesting, equable, and yet amusing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020

There is something intrinsically good-natured about all symbiotic relations, necessarily, but this one, which is probably the most ancient and most firmly established of all, seems especially equable.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas