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
We were an hour and three quarters in ascending from the bridge to the top; on this side the road might easily be made passable for horses.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
Nature has conveniently left narrow shelves, crevices, and less precipitous slopes here and there, which need only the application of the pick and shovel to be made passable even for pack animals.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
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
