Example Sentences

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At peril is a vast ecosystem that includes potable water for 40 million people, the livelihood of fishing communities and farmers, and the navigability of a major grain export hub.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2021

The Clean Water Act extended the scope of federal protections by eliminating the reliance on navigability in its definition of waters covered.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2020

The intelligibility and navigability of the Accumulibrary’s space depends entirely upon information systems.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2014

Because of their easy navigability, paper books and documents may be better suited to absorption in a text.

From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2013

In 1857 Lieutenant Ives, sent by the War Department to test the navigability of the Colorado, ascended as far as the Virgin River in a steamboat which he had shipped in pieces from Philadelphia.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling