How to Use viable in a Sentence

viable

adjective
Definition of viablenext
Synonyms for viablenext
  • Is she a viable candidate?
  • He could not suggest a viable alternative.
  • Even worse, the seeds can remain viable in the soil for years.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The effort was canceled in 1983, and the method deemed not viable.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The Zone needs a certain number of students to be viable.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This is meant to be a stepping stone to be able to scale up and match with the gene sequence and see if this is viable for H5N1.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The town is very viable, new businesses are coming in all the time.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • So, to assess if an idea is viable, the person who thinks of the idea should create a one-sheet right away.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The leaves and twigs on the major branches of tree, however, have all been burnt and are no longer viable.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Zoo officials say the park didn’t have a viable breeding pair of the monkeys for many years.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • But your new agreement, signed and dated by both of you, is viable and protects both of you.
    — Jann Blackstone, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • For the product to work, there must be a viable hair follicle under the skin.
    — Rebecca Deczynski, Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • To take advantage of this, back one of the two viable teams with plus money odds to advance.
    — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • And Hamas still represents a viable threat to the Israeli people.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The 140-year-old coastal rail line is the only viable route for passenger and freight trains between San Diego and the rest of the United States.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And this could make the medicine, which is only viable for about 2% of ALS patients, much harder to win approval.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
  • One of those people [on those 10 dates] could be a viable partner for you because that's a lot of people.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Marino’s first reaction was that the idea was not viable — for a film, sure, but not for a party.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This option is a viable choice for all different kinds of soils such as clay, dirt, or sand.
    — Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2024
  • For that, about 20 viable projects have been identified.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Whether that’s through a lack of viable acts or reluctance from the festival, Fred again..
    — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 5 July 2024
  • The Yanomami, and indigenous people like them, are the front line of the question of how viable the future will be on this planet.
    — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That could be a viable plan, preserving the palace and making the site more of a destination.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • The bottom line is that the clock is ticking and remaining viable options are few.
    — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2024
  • Maybe some of this is rooted in getting the right kind of accolades needed to make the restaurant viable.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2024
  • The new bridge was built to withstand up to 40 tons, 15 tons more than before, making the route a viable alternative to the highway.
    — Dylan Wickman, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Those factors helped to convince Mr. Goldfeder, the state election law expert, that the case could be viable.
    — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Batteries that could be recharged came along in 1859, making the electric-car idea more viable.
    — Kevin A. Wilson, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike an incomplete pass, which would have stopped the clock, the only viable outcome of the running play would have been a touchdown.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Times — like virtually every other American newspaper — has been struggling to find a viable financial model, given the massive downsizing of print advertising.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024

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