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

The trenches are made passable by being floored with a wooden pathway which runs on piles—underneath which is the gutter of water and mud which is the real floor of the trench.

From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)

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

The following day the snow-ploughs and the rollers were busy, and the centre of the highway was made passable for some miles further north.

From The Land of the Long Night by Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)

The fibres of grass were torn and drawn into fine threads, and these made passable oakum, which was thrust into the seams between the layers of bark until they were thoroughly stopped.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher