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

Pant-legs cut off well above the baggy knees made passable shorts; the sweater bulged a trifle at the shoulders, it fit adequately elsewhere—and something more than adequately.

From Master of the Moondog by Mullen, Stanley

After the earth has been deposited it must be worked over to secure the correct cross section and be made passable for vehicles.

From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)

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

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