made passable

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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

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

This, with five minutes' work, was made passable for the battery and for the three army wagons which the quartermaster's department had ventured to send out.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

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

It was mostly a wilderness country, and, though generally level, much of it was a bog, which could only be made passable by laying down a corduroy road.

From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Drake, Samuel Adams