sensible
Example Sentences
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Maintaining a cash reserve to avoid selling investments during a market downturn is a sensible approach.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Nor is it the way they never concerned themselves with prowling the stage or donning anything other than sensible blazers and jeans.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
A sensible approach begins with food, not pills.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
We don’t believe that skipping over segments and starting to serve a wildly diverse group of guests is actually strategically sensible.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella’s husband.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing sensible
Positive Adjectives to Describe People
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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