made passable

Example Sentences

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While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bifurcations of the Orinoco, the isthmus of Tuamini, so easy to be made passable by an artificial canal, will ere long fix the attention of commercial Europe.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

But the track was everywhere passable, or capable of easily being made passable for mules.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston

Here an irregular stone staircase has been made, passable by one person at a time.

From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by McAllan, Alexander

The first plan is, To attack the French retrenchment generally; the ditch which is before it, and the morass which lies on our left wing, to be made passable with these fascines.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas