ponderable

Example Sentences

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“Imponderables are ponderable, but answerable, no. Ask a philosopher, but be cautious. If you hear, ‘Eureka!,’ if you think, ‘His answer has captured my question!,’ then here is proof he is a counterfeit.

From Literature

More readily ponderable is a lovely shot, made in Israel, of Bedouin olive pickers asleep under blankets on rugged ground at dawn, with the long, low expanse of a prison in the background.

From The New Yorker

“It dates back to the time in which one thought that the ‘ponderable bodies’ are the only physically real entities,” he later wrote to the British cosmologist Felix Pirani.

From New York Times

How are they even ponderable when valuing health care for one’s self or one’s family?

From Scientific American

The atmosphere was as agreeably light as if ponderable clouds had suddenly rolled out of the room.

From Project Gutenberg